- Inside or Out? Insights on career advancement and gender equality in management -
Master thesis
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- Master of Science [1711]
Sammendrag
Despite the proliferation of research on the lack of women holding leadership
positions in organisations, antidotes prescribed for improving gender parity have
failed time and time again. We conduct a case study to observe and explore the
participants evaluations from a specific intervention: The Leadership
Development Program in an international energy company based in Norway.
We seek insights from participants in into how such programs can be useful for
career advancement, and to add understanding of what dynamics affect such
career advancement for men and women. Our findings are grouped into two
categories: dynamics inside the leadership development program and outside the
program. Findings include insights on how the leadership development program
develops confidence, confirmation and self-development beneficial for career
advancement, with some gender differences. The findings on dynamics outside
the program indicate the significant importance of organisational initiatives such
as career opportunities, career rotation, follow up and managerial support,
dynamics that are lacking at the case company. Recommendations for
improvements to the case organisation’s program are given.
Beskrivelse
Masteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Leadership and Organizational Psychology - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2019