scholarly journals Comments on the Empirical Investigation of Women Managers: Their Fears

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-92
Author(s):  
Rosen john
Keyword(s):  
Women Managers ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Narrow Spectrum ◽  
Managerial Level ◽  
The Impact

In the October-December 1999 issue of Vikalpa (Vol 24, No 4), we had published an article titled “Fear of Success among Women Managers” by Sanghamitra Buddhapriya, which was an attempt to study the impact of managerial level and sex-role orientation on fear of success. In this rejoinder to her article, Rosen John discusses some of the shortcomings of the article especially with regard to the choice of sampling techniques selected and the narrow spectrum from which the respondents were chosen.

Fear of Success among Women Managers: An Empirical Investigation

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghamitra Buddhapriya
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Women Managers ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Managerial Level ◽  
The Impact

Fear of success is regarded as a major problem facing women managers in the organizational setting. Such female-specific fear of success motive originates from sex-role socialization process. In the present study, an attempt is made to study the impact of managerial level and sex-role orientation on fear of success. The study is based on an empirical investigation conducted among 160 women managers from senior, middle, and junior levels of management from 10 major PSUs. Contrary to expectations, the results reveal that the average score of women managers on fear of success is low and managerial level does not have any significant influence on it. However, sex-role orientation is found to be having significant influence on fear of success. Androgynous and masculine sex-role type women managers experienced much less fear of success than the feminine sex-role type.

The impact of gender and sex-role orientation on responses to dissatisfaction in close relationships

Sex Roles ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caryl E. Rusbult ◽  
Isabella M. Zembrodt ◽  
John Iwaniszek
Keyword(s):  
Close Relationships ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
The Impact

Fear of Success, Sex-Role Orientation, and Performance in Differing Experimental Conditions

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 519-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varda Konstam ◽  
Harry B. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
White Female ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Predicting Performance ◽  
Word Task ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Individual

The study was undertaken to explore the theoretical differences between Pappo and Horner, in regard to the significance of the variables of sex-role orientation of the individual and sex-role orientation of the task, in predicting performance of females high in fear of success. Subjects were 227 white female high school sophomores and juniors. It was hypochesized that with feedback of success on a task which was deemed sex-role inappropriate, individuals high in fear of success, who demonstrate a traditional sex-role orientation, would manifest smaller increments or larger decrements in performance between Scrambled Word Tasks II and I. Feedback of success-nonsuccess, sex-role orientation, and fear of success were not effective in predicting differences in performance on the Scrambled Word Task. The defensive patterns postulated by Pappo to be characteristic of the high fear of success individual were upheld.

The impact of sex, sex-role orientation, and construct type on vocational differentiation, integration, and conflict

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg J Neimeyer ◽  
Michael T Brown ◽  
April E Metzler ◽  
Carol Hagans ◽  
Marianna Tanguy
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Vocational Differentiation

Impact of Maternal Employment on Daughters' Sex-Role Orientation and Fear of Success

1981 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 963-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith D. Gilroy ◽  
Teresa M. Talierco ◽  
Roberta Steinbacher
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Working Mothers ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Employed Mothers

Maternal employment was related to scores on the Bem Sex-role Inventory as well as to fear of success in a sample of 90 high school females. Data indicated that the daughters of working mothers were significantly more androgynous and demonstrated less fear of success than did the daughters of non-working mothers. Results are discussed in terms of the modeling of a broad spectrum of sex-role behaviors by the employed mothers that are positively reflected in the daughters' self-concept.

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