http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/jobs/06pre.html?scp=4&sq=glass%20ceiling%20effect%20&st=cse
In this article the author, Shaunti Feldhahn, shares what she has learned from years of research about mens perceptions of women that can effect them in the workplace. One of the major findings she came across was that men are able to turn off their emotions while doing business. Women on the other hand take things very personally and can even become emotional over things that take place in the work place. Shaunti says that these actions make women appear less business-savvy or experienced, which can put them at a disadvantage. The article also talks about how women who ask questions of a man in a group setting make the man feel challenged even though the women feels that they were asking a reasonable question. By calling men out in the workplace women may make them want to avoid us. A last discovery the the author made was that sometimes women try to hard to act like men and this does not work in their favor and can become distracting. In chapter five, the situational leadership style suggest that leaders should change their style of leadership to fit the followers. Do you think women should change their work style to accomodate the different types of people they work with?
I think that EVERYONE should change their style to accommodate different situations and people. I will agree with the article that women do tend to be more emotional about situations than men. Women are too maternal when making decisions and focus more on the people and not so much on the situation which is what keeps them from moving up the ladder. If women were more like men in the sense that they do not allow personal emotions to get in the way of their goals then the glass ceiling would have been shattered a long time ago.
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