An exploration of differences between professional advancement of project managers based on their gender in operations-driven and project-driven organizations

Prabhakar, Guru; Nisar, Tahir

Abstract

This paper discusses results of an exploratory study conducted on project and operations managers. The study aims to investigate the difference between the professional advancement of project and operations managers based on their gender. It also attempts to discover the preferred ways of career progression in project driven and operations driven (project dependent) organizations. The key objective of this work is to formulate refined research questions for the research community based on the results of our research work.

• Presentation Conference Type: Presentation / Talk
• Conference Name: 2nd International Conference on Industrial and Mechanical Engineering and Operations Management (IMEOM 2019)
• Start Date: Dec 12, 2019
• End Date: Dec 13, 2019
• Publication Date: Dec 13, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jan 14, 2020
• Series ISSN: 2691-7734
• Keywords: Career; Gender; Project managers; Operations managers; Project-driven organizations; Operations-driven organizations.
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5130100
• Publisher URL: http://ieomsociety.org/ieom/dhaka2019-proceedings/