Research Article

The Interaction Between Five Factor Personality Traits And Glass Ceiling Perception

Volume: 7 Number: 2 July 7, 2017
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The Interaction Between Five Factor Personality Traits And Glass Ceiling Perception

Abstract

Especially after the Industrial Revolution, women who began to be involved more in business life can work with men in many sectors today. However, although developments until today enabled women to be more involved in the business sectors, they were not given the possibility of having equal career opportunities with men. Glass ceiling concept, which approaches this problem encountered by women in their career life with a different perspective, is the basic research topic of this study.

This paper focuses on glass ceiling perceptions of five-star hotel employees and it has the main purpose of analyzing the relationship between these perceptions and five factors personality traits. Based on this, the relationships between the employees’ demographic characteristics and personal features, and their glass ceiling perceptions were studied. This study was conducted with 279 five-star hotel employees in Antalya. Descriptive research method of quantitative research methods was used in the study. As a result of the research, it was concluded that employees’ glass ceiling perceptions significantly differed based on neuroticism personality trait, gender, department and experience in tourism sector.

 



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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Psychology , Tourism (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

July 7, 2017

Submission Date

July 7, 2017

Acceptance Date

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Published in Issue

Year 2017 Volume: 7 Number: 2

APA
Tekin, Ö. A., & Keskin, E. (2017). Beş Faktör Kişilik Özellikleri ve Cam Tavan Algısı Arasındaki Etkileşim. Ordu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi, 7(2), 307-320. https://izlik.org/JA42RZ62GS

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