The unwritten success rules for power: attention top dog!

Nice new Working world: Virtualization, flexibility, project work and matrix organization are the hallmarks of modern Companys, No more suitable district for male performers and top dogs, who benefit from classical hierarchies, one might think. Or is it?

Why women should deal with rankings

Why deal with topics that seem so old-fashioned like hierarchies and your own possible positioning in them? Quite simply: not doing it could prove to be for yourself Women prove to be a career-related mistake.

The sociologist Anja Bultemeier, together with research colleagues, has examined the subject of “Structures and rules of the game in modern companies and what they (can) mean for women's careers”.

Departure from the classic Kaminkarriere

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There is therefore a departure from the classic "chimney career". In addition to the management career, there is the project career and less pronounced the specialist career.

Bultemeier states that women in modern companies have now penetrated horizontally into all areas and are now competing vertically with men for positions. Historically, this is a novelty.

New signs, old patterns of behavior

Whether there is, however, a paradigm shift in the for a Career necessary properties is more than questionable. The research results rather show that only the signs have changed, the expedient Behavior but stayed the same.

So Bultemeier comes to the conclusion that in the work practice of modern companies it is not the soft factors that are career-relevant. Rather, it is about finding one's place in a context that is not free from divergent interests and conflicts clear to demand

“Companies are not domination-free spaces”

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Anja Bultemeier then comes to the exciting conclusion: companies are not rule-free areas. Oh? In detail she says:

“Companies are not domination-free spaces; in order to publicly position oneself in them, 'hard' factors such as determination, Courage and assertiveness. A central result of our empirical evidence is that women avoid taking a public position and entering into communicative negotiation processes – especially when the culture in the company is characterized by competition.”

Study on career requirements in the knowledge economy

Many scientific studies warn: Their career strategies do not lead women to the top of the company, but into a trap. I would like to examine some of these studies in more detail here. A study by sociologists of the Technical University Berlin examined the career requirements in the newly structured working world of the knowledge economy for women and men.

One of several inconsistencies that Professorin Christiane Funken and you Team uncovered, can be seen in the project work, which is a test for the Ascent in the knowledge economy.

Cooperation or career

The projects are carried out in interdisciplinary teams whose employees Employees distributed around the globe and whose social and cultural characteristics are very different.

To one Problem for the company fast and to solve them efficiently, the ability to cooperate is required. However, the ability to cooperate collides with the requirement to be visible in a team in order to be recommended for career advancement.

Almost all project managers are men

Funken can only stand out if he sets himself apart from others, Funken explains: "Women rely heavily on cooperation, men, on the other hand, naturally and primarily on competition" - and climb the top rung of the career ladder.

Although at least as many women as men work in projects, almost all project managers are men.

Study of the University of Hamburg: Women must believe more strongly in their careers

Since 1986 Sonja Bischoff, Professorin for General Business Administration at the University of Hamburg, the middle management in Germany.

Participating in the fifth study “Who leads in (the) Future?” almost 2008 male and female participants took part in 370 Executives. Bischoff is also convinced that female managers have to believe more in their careers and work on them more purposefully.

Do not women want to lead?

Nearly a third of women do not even consider the idea of ​​a leadership position, compared to just under a fifth of men.

With a higher hierarchical level, the proportion of upward-oriented men is growing. So it seems to continue to apply that men and women are based on different hierarchical systems.

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