Female Managers in Aerospace

The data upon which the research was based were collected through the administration of a survey questionnaire to a sample of female managers at Rockwell International Corporation the focus organization. The sample size was 30, and included seven members of the company's upperlevel management, and 23 middle and lowerlevel managers. The ratio of upperlevel managers to middle and lowerlevel managers in the research sample was generally equivalent to the upperlevel/middle and lowerlevel ratio found among all female managers at the company. It was assumed, therefore, that the research sample was representative of the female managerial staff at the focus organization.Research Objectives

Two research questions were investigated through the conduct of this study. These questions were stated as follows:

1. What factors were involved in the development of the limited representation of women in upperlevel management at the focus organization?

2. What is the relative importance of the factors identified as contributing to the limited representation of women in upperlevel management at the focus organization?

The survey questionnaire was a fouritem instrument; howev

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on this page. Table 33 Agreement/DisagreementAn Overt Company Policy Gives Preference to Men Over Women in Promotion to UpperLevel Management: Results of Chi Square AnalysisGoodness of Fit (N=7) =============================================================== Observed Distribution Distribution Proportion   Yes 7 100.0% No 0 0.0%  Total 7 100.0% == ====== Degrees of freedom: 1 Calculated chi square: 7.000 Critical value @ p<.01: 6.635 Statistical significance: Yes @ p<.01 =============================================================== The implied null hypothesis held that no statistically significant differences would exist in the response distributions. As the data presented in table 33 indicate, however, the response distribution differences were statistically significant at p<.01. Thus, the implied null hypothesis was rejected, and it was found that, among this minority group of women manager
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