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What is Glass Ceiling Syndrome

Handbook of Research on Current Trends in Asian Economics, Business, and Administration
It can be defined as invisible upper limit and a barrier to your potential. Especially woman managers who want to be promoted to higher level positions are faced with a ceiling of glass, and they can work in limited number of administrative positions which require responsibility.
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Female Managers in the Healthcare Organizations
Sema Üstgörül (Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8486-6.ch019
Abstract
In a globalized and complicated international economy, executives believe that management culture will be given new direction by management teams comprised of both men and women, and that these mixed teams will contribute to the diversity of ideas and perspectives in management. Despite the fact that there are as many female graduates as male graduates today, women continue to be significantly underrepresented in executive roles in the business world, particularly in top management (executive board, supervisory board). The most important factor preventing women from being managers is work-family balance. While women indeed tend to climb the ladder step by step, men make several jumps in their careers, and they meet with success. It makes no difference whether a candidate for a position as a board member, director, or divisional manager is male or female. The goal of this study is to try to demonstrate that female managers may be more effective in management because of their personalities and areas of competence in the healthcare sector.
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