"Ce poste n'est pas fait pour moi!": l'impact de la norme de genre et de la culture organisationnelle sur la mobilité professionnelle ascendante

Casini, Annalisa;Sanchez-Mazas, Margarita
(2005) Les Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale — Vol. 3, n° 67-68, p. 101-112 (2005)

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(en) Two studies test the general hypothesis that women under-representation at the higher levels of the social hierarchy (a phenomenon often called “glass ceiling”, cf. Sanchez-Mazas & Casini, 2005) may derive from a normative conflict between internalized gender norms (i.e. feminine vs. masculine) and the norms underlying the organizational culture. The organizational culture, operationalized as “vocation of the company” (relational vs. instrumental) (Study 1; n = 153) or “style of management” (relational vs. instrumental) (Study 2; n = 78) was crossed respectively with respondents sex and with their support of the “gender norm” (feminine vs. masculine) in order to examine individuals propensity to endorse a managerial position. Results suggest such a normative incongruity and its potential impact on upward social mobility strategies. The perspective we propose is in keeping with a general reflection addressing the historical and psychosocial determinants of the masculine/feminine asymmetry with respect to power.
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Casini, A., & Sanchez-Mazas, M. (2005). “Ce poste n’est pas fait pour moi!”: l’impact de la norme de genre et de la culture organisationnelle sur la mobilité professionnelle ascendante. Les Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale, 3(67-68), 101-112. https://doi.org/10.3917/cips.067.0101 (Original work published 2005)