Much ado about nothing? observers problematization of women's same-sex conflict at work

Deskripsi

We propose that individuals are inclined to believe that women have difficulty working with one another. Management researchers have reinforced this assumption by propagating concepts such as the queen bee syndrome and by neglecting to provide balanced perspectives with accounts of conflict among men at work. We suggest that observers are inclined to problematize conflict among women at work relative to conflict among men, and that this tendency might be partly responsible for perceptions that women have difficulty working with one another. We provide empirical evidence to support this notion. We first review the literature on conflict between women at work and address its shortcomings to set the stage for our study. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT].Printed journal