Attitudinal differences between managers and students on certain work-family issues

• Main Author: Fouche, Andrea
• Other Authors: Bagraim, Jeffrey
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2015
• Subjects: Organisational Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11832

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-40). === This study compares the similarities and differences in the attitudes of managers and students towards work-family issues such as the locus of responsibility for managing this interface, the perceived impact that children have on a working mother's career and traditional sex role stereotypes regarding women at work. Participants were 103 final year finance university students and 56 managers from three of the top accounting organisations in the Western Cape. There were strong significant attitudinal differences across gender, but few differences between managers and students. The most important contribution of this study is the understanding gained about the work-family attitudes of both male and female managers and future managers (current students) within the financial industry.