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The separation spiral : modelling voluntary turnover of women executives
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23620 The separation spiral : modelling voluntary turnover of women executives Kleyn, Nicola upetd@up.ac.za Clark, Desray UCTD Vocational guidance Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The aim of this study is to gain a thorough understanding of the reasons for the high voluntary turnover amongst women executives in South African organisations.Twenty-one, semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with senior South African businesswomen in order to establish the reasons they had terminated their employment contracts. The feedback was analysed using a combination of narrative, content and constant comparative analysis. Snowball sampling generated a participant base of women with an average tenure of 8 years in their previous organisations; who collectively managed budgets exceeding R80 billion and were responsible for approximately 150 000 staff members.The main reasons why these women left their organisations included the following: the need to make a difference, their exclusion from male social networks, their incompatibility with the paternalistic organisational culture, a perceived lack of organisational sponsorship and support, a values clash between the individual and the organisation or with one individual in the organisation and problems with their direct supervisor or board of directors. After experiencing a general feeling of uneasiness and dissatisfaction most of the women resigned as a result of a specific incident occurring in their organisational life. This paper offers insights into why women executives leave organisations and shows that the much discussed glass ceiling and family support networks do not feature as valid resignation reasons for women who have been successful in their careers for many years. It also presents the separation spiral - a model of the process that is followed when women executives voluntarily terminate their employment contracts. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T15:42:36Z 2010-06-22 2013-09-06T15:42:36Z 2007-04-06 2010-06-22 2010-03-30 Dissertation Clark, D 2006, The separation spiral : modeling voluntary turnover of women executives, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23620 > G10/202/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23620 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03302010-124553/ © 2006 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Vocational guidance The separation spiral : modelling voluntary turnover of women executives |
| title | The separation spiral : modelling voluntary turnover of women executives |
| title_full | The separation spiral : modelling voluntary turnover of women executives |
| title_fullStr | The separation spiral : modelling voluntary turnover of women executives |
| title_full_unstemmed | The separation spiral : modelling voluntary turnover of women executives |
| title_short | The separation spiral : modelling voluntary turnover of women executives |
| title_sort | separation spiral modelling voluntary turnover of women executives |
| topic | UCTD Vocational guidance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23620 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03302010-124553/ |