Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

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• Fereshteh Esmaieli ²

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Abstract

It is necessary to identify the challenges women managers face in organizations and help solve them due to their increasing presence in social and managerial positions. This article is based on the two goals of identifying the challenges of women managers and prioritizing them using a mixed research method during two study phases. First, the main themes were extracted using in-depth and semi-structured interviews with 20 female managers in different organizational positions. Then, the thematic analysis method used Max Q. D. A software. The result indicated three main themes, ten sub-categories, 37 concepts, and 238 codes. In the second phase, using a quantitative method to validate and prioritize the extracted themes, the themes were presented to 10 interviewed women as a questionnaire. AHP hierarchical analysis technique and Super Decision software were used. The findings showed that the most critical challenges faced by women managers in the workplace are unequal management opportunities, with a weight of 0.242 in the first place, differences in taste with upstream managers, with a weight of 0.157 in the second place, and conflict between the two sexes with a weight of 0.154 in the third rank. Also, among the six methods of facing problems and challenges, women managers pretend to be masculine more to improve their job levels.

Keywords

• "Female Managers"
• "Job Challenges"
• "Mixed Research Method"
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• AHP Analysis"

Main Subjects

• ۸۰/۵۰۰۰ Social Development Social Welfare Globalization Family abuse Job Satisfaction social participation