Abstract
Women’s participation in the paid workforce is one of the most significant social changes of the last century. Therefore, significant progress has been achieved by women with their increase movements into the occupations and the proportion of women in management of different levels of the organizations has increased. However, towards the end of year 2012 the proportion of women in decision making is very low and still there are only around 20 per cent women are represent the managerial positions. Qualitative case study methodology was used to answer the question ‘what are the perceived personal barriers that inhibit to career development of women managers in Sri Lanka’? By this study, it has been analyzed the experiences of 40 Sri Lankan women who are holding senior-level management positions in five public and five private sector organizations in the occupational categories of Education, Accountancy, Engineering, Insurance, Banking and Medical Service. The Grounded Theory analysis method was applied to analyze the data. The study found out that there are barriers in organizational support, number of task and working load, nearest colleagues and friendship and fellow managers and support.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/kjm.v2i1.6545 Kelaniya Journal of Management Vol.2(1) 2013:92-112
Highlights
Background of the StudyLike many other Asian countries, labour force statistics of Sri Lanka gathered through the latter part of the 20th century demonstrate an increase in the number of women in paid work
Personal factors are the common obstacles faced by the women when they accede to top positions
Our study looked at a number of different criteria for managerial effectiveness and found out that there are barriers in organizational support, number of task and working load, nearest colleagues and friendship and fellow managers and support
Summary
Background of the StudyLike many other Asian countries, labour force statistics of Sri Lanka gathered through the latter part of the 20th century demonstrate an increase in the number of women in paid work. The increase in number of women professionally educated and entering management will change the social fabric and accept new role definitions for women and men. The proportion of women in management of different levels of the organizations has increased and the number of women in the administrative and management categories decreased during the period of 1980-1990 (Department of Census and statistics 1995). In 1980 there were 452 women and in 1985 there were 645 women in administrative and management categories This is a 40 per cent increase in women in administrative grades (Department of Census and Statistics, 1995) during this period. In 1990 there were 43% women in administrative grades and this is a 43 percent reduction during the period of 1985-1990(Department of Census and Statistics 1995). The proportion of the women employees in the administrative grades remained low and stagnant at 13 percent in 1990
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