PSYC 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Glass Ceiling, Strategic Alliance
12 Oct 2017
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More equity in top-tiers of leadership, the better a company will do. Making our words count not about showing up, but speaking up. Sticky floors based on beliefs/assumptions we hold along the way. Barriers that keep you stuck on the sticky floors: Advice: look inward and do the work the glass ceiling becomes an illusion. When organizations have more diversity, they tend to be more successful. The glass ceiling = invisible barriers to the promotion of women and ethnic minorities into upper management and executive levels. Early 1970s common to separate job advertisements for men and women. Courts ruled it was illegal to advertise employment based on gender. Modern sexism in job advertisements = still prevalent. Demonstrated that selection and promotion were influenced by gender; discrimination occurs because managers in charge of promotions/creating assignments for self-interested ways. Managers behave the ways they perceive the boss would want them to.
