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Israeli perspective on shattering the glass ceiling: mustering managers' responsibility for integrating women high-tech engineers into top executive positions

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Our research focused on the relationships of gender and voluntary turnover risky decision making among engineers (males and females) in IT firms in Israel. One of the hypotheses, examined in the study was that gender would moderate the relation between management experience and turnover intentions. The hypothesis was confirmed. Namely, men with longer management experience were more likely to take risk and voluntarily leave the firm. By contrast, among women, the relation between management experience and voluntary risky decision making was not significant, that is extensive management experience doesn`t appear to encourage voluntary risky turnover. This findings will be discussed.

Author(s):

Limor Kessler ladelsky    
The graduate school of business bar ilan university
Israel

Helena Desivilya Syna    
The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College
Israel