Kadın yöneticilere karşı tutumlar: Yeni bir ölçeğin geliştirilmesi

Thesis Title: Attitudes Towards Women Managers: Development of a New MeasureName of the Student: Yonca Ayşe BerkmanABSTRACTThis study developed a new measure to assess the attitudes towards womenmanagers (ATWoM). Despite the fact that women are increasingly more active inwork life and a large number of women in Turkey have high-status professions, theratio of women in senior executive positions is still low due to the glass ceilingphenomenon. This paper reports the results of two studies. The first study wasqualitative and generated items for the new scale through in-depth interviews onmanagerial characteristics with 37 employees from eight different organizations.The second study tested the psychometric properties of ATWoM, and aimed atidentifying the factors affecting the attitudes. A total of 460 respondents filled out aquestionnaire assessing the attitudes towards women in management. Findings showthat ATWoM correlated positively with Women as Managers Scale (supportingconvergent validity), negatively with traditional gender role stereotypes (supportingdivergent validity), and positively with the strength of preference to work withwomen managers (supporting concurrent validity). The percent of women managersin the organization moderated the relationship between ATWoM and gender rolestereotypes for women, but not for men. The quality of work experience withwomen managers moderated the relationship between ATWoM and gender rolestereotypes for men, but not for women. The duration of work experience did nothave a moderation effect on the relationship between ATWoM and gender rolestereotypes. The newly developed scale has the potential to contribute to the humanresources management practices in organizations.Keywords: Attitudes, women managers, Women as Managers Scale, gender rolestereotypes, preference