Event Details

April Chapter Meeting and Breakfast Presentation with Dr. Bob Buchanan on: Do Women Like to Work for a Female Boss.

Summary: The glass ceiling is typically envisioned in a gendered context as limited upward mobility of females in organizations, perpetuated by males with a ‘boys club’ mentality. However, what if mobility is also hindered by subordinate relationships between women? Anecdotally, we find managers afraid to promote a female team member, for fear that the other girls won’t work for her. Our research finds that women feel females are good managers, but they don’t actually want to work for one. Oddly, the effect was more pronounced with higher number of years in the work force. In fact, men were generally more receptive to a female boss than were women. Suggestions are presented on how to ameliorate the impact of what we discovered as a ‘hidden bias,” and has been termed the ‘pink ceiling.’

Speaker Biography: Bob Buchanan is a management professor at IUP. He worked as a Staffing Manager at Accountemps division of Robert Half International in Ft. Worth. He has a finance degree, MBA, and Ph.D. in organizational behavior / HRM from the University of Texas at Arlington. Bob has ongoing research in gender/diversity and sustainability in higher education, with recent focus on emerging market cultures of Asia and the Middle East. He teaches in PA, India, Palestine, and Vietnam. His family moved to Indiana PA from Dubai, where he taught masters and doctoral students

Pending approval for HRCI and SHRM Credits

No charge to 2017 chapter members or first time guests; $25.00 non-members payable on entry

Please RSVP by email to hr@asmgt.com

Please park in spaces marked 'reserved for ICASHRM' and enter through the MAIN entrance as this meeting is not being held in the Bristol Court Dining Room.