Partial mediating effect of job stress between glass ceiling-gender discrimination and organizational commitment: A study of banking sector of Pakistan
Abstract
Glass ceiling concept is gaining importance in working organizations. It restricts organizations to get the advantage from experience and knowledge of female employees. Gender discrimination also cause hurdle in a path of success for the organization. Both of these workplace discrimination cause stress in employees that can make organization suffer. Organizational commitment on the other hand is an important attitudinal outcome that every organization needs to have from its employees. This helps organizations to get on the road of success. There should be practices that help curb glass ceiling- gender discrimination. Practices that can help control the practices of workplace discrimination. This study was destined to find the mediating effect of job stress among gender discrimination-glass ceiling and organizational commitment. Results showed that there exists a partial mediating relationship among the job stress (mediator), gender discrimination-glass ceiling (independent variable) and organizational commitment (dependent variable). Respondents of the research work were banking sector employees of Pakistan. The sample size is obtained through systematic random sampling technique. A questionnaire consisting of 17 items were distributed among banking personnel regarding study variables. Future Recommendations were also offered.References
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