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Title: | 'Think Manager, Think Male': Does it Apply to Zimbabwe |
Author: | Manwa, H.A. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Zambezia (ISSN 0379-0622) |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 60-75 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa |
Subjects: | gender relations managers Labor and Employment Women's Issues gender Sex Roles Gender equality leadership |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/juz/750/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | Extant literature confirms that the variables aggressiveness, competitiveness, logic and objectivity are normally associated with males, while emotion, intuition, modesty and submissiveness are normally associated with females, and that 'think manager, think male' is the norm the world over. Because there is little empirical evidence from the African continent to confirm this view, the present study tests this claim by investigating perceptions of managers in senior and middle management (including black females, white females, black males and white males) in 4 commercial banks and 140 hotels in Zimbabwe, investigating the degree to which each of the characteristics mentioned above was associated with either females or males, or considered important for upward mobility into senior management positions. It appears that female characteristics are not considered appropriate for upward mobility into senior management levels, and females are excluded from successfully competing for senior management positions because of their gender. Furthermore, the study shows that there are differences in cultural orientation between white and black Zimbabweans. The view of the whites seems to be aligned to the Anglo-Saxon view reported in the reviewed literature, while blacks seem to be affected by a different cultural orientation. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |