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Work experiences and career and job satisfaction among professional and managerial women in Norway

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  • Richardsen, Astrid M.
  • Mikkelsen, Aslaug
  • Burke, Ronald J.

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Research suggests that women may be underrepresented in top management positions because of organizational policies and practices that subtly influence their career paths. This survey of 191 professional and managerial women in Norway investigated the relationships among organizational supports (e.g. support and encouragement, training and development), work pressures (e.g. hours worked, work-family conflict), and work outcomes such as career and job satisfaction. Results indicated that work pressures were significantly related to satisfaction, but not to perceived opportunities for career progress. The organizational supports were positively correlated with all the work outcomes, indicating that women were more satisfied with both career and job when organizational supports were present. When combined with individual characteristics and work pressures in regression analyses, organizational supports still made positive contributions to satisfaction at work. The findings were generally consistent with results of a Canadian study of managerial women.

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  • Richardsen, Astrid M. & Mikkelsen, Aslaug & Burke, Ronald J., 1997. "Work experiences and career and job satisfaction among professional and managerial women in Norway," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 13(2), pages 209-218, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:13:y:1997:i:2:p:209-218
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    1. Muhammad Naseer & Ayaz ul Haq & Muhammad Farooq, 2018. "Antecedent of Employees’ Career Satisfaction: An Empirical Investigation of Pharmaceutical Sector of Pakistan," International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, vol. 8(7), pages 281-299, July.
    2. Roland T. Rust & J. Jeffrey Inman & Jianmin Jia & Anthony Zahorik, 1999. "What You Know About Customer-Perceived Quality: The Role of Customer Expectation Distributions," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 18(1), pages 77-92.
    3. Hang Ngo & Sharon Foley & Ming Ji & Raymond Loi, 2014. "Work Satisfaction of Chinese Employees: A Social Exchange and Gender-Based View," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 116(2), pages 457-473, April.

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