Investigating the “Glass Ceiling” Phenomenon: An Empirical Study of Actual Promotions to Top Management

1994 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary N. Powell ◽  
D. Anthony Butterfield
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Top Management

scholarly journals “That is Not What I Live For”: How Lower-Level Green Employees Cope with Identity Tensions at Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5778
Author(s):  
Susanne Blazejewski ◽  
Franziska Dittmer ◽  
Anke Buhl ◽  
Andrea Simone Barth ◽  
Carsten Herbes
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Work Strategies ◽  
Job Context

Research on green identity work has so far concentrated on sustainability managers and/or top-management actors. How lower-level green employees cope with identity tensions at work is, as yet, under-researched. The paper uses an identity work perspective and a qualitative empirical study to identify four strategies that lower-level employees use in negotiating and enacting their green identities at work. Contrary to expectations, lower-level green employees engage substantially in job crafting as a form of identity work despite their limited discretion. In addition, the study demonstrates that lower-level green employees make use of identity work strategies that uphold rather than diminish perceived misalignment between their green identities and their job context.

Behavior of Hospital Mid-Level Managers in Budgeting Implementation - an Empirical Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-249
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Cygańska ◽  
Zbigniew Marcinkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Change Implementation ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Management Changes

This study examines the introduction of management changes in a hospital based on the Lewin's model. It focuses on the attitudes of a hospital's mid-level managers to a new management-budgeting system. The conclusions are based on empirical research. The article analyzes the change implementation process related to the budgeting system in a hospital with particular consideration of the attitudes and the level of involvement of employees in the performance of new tasks. The analysis showed that the top management of hospitals and the mid-level management do not see the effects of changes related to budgeting in similar ways. This may cause significant hindrances to the process of employees adopting attitudes and behaviors required by the top management. The diversity of opinions in this area may result from: not specifying in detail the targets of budgeting by the top management or not informing the medium-level management of them, a lack of set measures for evaluation of the performance of budget tasks, aiming at achievement of the assumed targets by means of methods not accepted by the employees.

Managers' Beliefs about the Glass Ceiling: Interpersonal and Organizational Factors

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina C. Elacqua ◽  
Terry A. Beehr ◽  
Curtiss P. Hansen ◽  
Jennica Webster
Keyword(s):  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Situational Variables ◽  
Female Managers ◽  
Hierarchical Levels

The glass ceiling refers to the difficulty of women trying to be promoted into the top management levels. The present study examined managers' potential explanations, implicit or explicit, for why women rarely reach the top hierarchical levels in their own organization. Among 685 managers at a large Midwestern insurance company, a model was supported in which beliefs about interpersonal and situational variables in the organization were related to the perception that men and women were treated differently overall, which, in turn, was related to the belief that a glass ceiling existed. The model was not different for male and female managers, but women tended to perceive that each element of the model existed to a greater extent than men did.

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