Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2017

GLASS CEILING AND ITS IMPACT ON CORPORATE SECTOR IN CHENNAI CITY

Dr. S. Syed Rafiq Ahmed, K. Umadevi

Abstract :

 Glass ceiling" is a metaphor for the hard–to–see informal barriers that keep women from getting promotions, pay raises and further opportunities.  The "glass ceiling" metaphor has also been used to describe the restrictions and barriers experienced by minority racial groups. Only few studies have been carried out so far about Glass Ceiling in India. Those studies though have tried to understand the reasons behind it yet they do not provide a comprehensive understanding of the organizational barriers that hinder their growth. Hence the study was conducted with the aim of obtaining the following objectives. That is to find out the presence of glass ceiling and its impact in corporate sector. At the same time, hypothesis is framed to find out whether there is a significant effect of organizational barrier and Glass Ceiling. Merely this study has been completed with an empirical survey which was systematically conducted using a self–structured questionnaire and the sample consisted of 100 women employees of various corporate sectors in Chennai city. For presenting and analyzing the data both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The finding of the study reveals that irrespective of cadre to which respondents belongs, emphasizing strongly the existence of Glass Ceiling and the organizational barriers prevent them to rise the corporate ladder. By taking all these facts into consideration better suggestions have been made in t,his study. Finally, the most valuable recommendations for further studies and limitations have been outlined.

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DR. S. SYED RAFIQ AHMED, K.UMADEVI, GLASS CEILING AND ITS IMPACT ON CORPORATE SECTOR IN CHENNAI CITY, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-11 | November-2017

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