TY - GEN
T1 - Hostile_Work_Environment.Com
AU - Tapia, Andrea Hoplight
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - In this paper I discuss the behaviors and efforts of the male employees of one small software development company, which was born and died during the gold rush mentality11 that captivated many start-ups during the Dot.Com Bubble. From evidence drawn from interviews, observations, self-reported organizational charts and time diaries, I argue that the organizational culture, created by the original and managerial employees of this company, made it nearly impossible for female employees to be hired, I also claim that once a few female employees were hired, the organizational culture made the work environment so hostile that it drove them to leave and seek alternative employment. I argue these points from both a social constructivist and an individual differences theoretical points of view. The conclusions that I draw from this case study are that the Dot Com Bubble did more to impede women from the IT workforce than to facilitate their entrance.
AB - In this paper I discuss the behaviors and efforts of the male employees of one small software development company, which was born and died during the gold rush mentality11 that captivated many start-ups during the Dot.Com Bubble. From evidence drawn from interviews, observations, self-reported organizational charts and time diaries, I argue that the organizational culture, created by the original and managerial employees of this company, made it nearly impossible for female employees to be hired, I also claim that once a few female employees were hired, the organizational culture made the work environment so hostile that it drove them to leave and seek alternative employment. I argue these points from both a social constructivist and an individual differences theoretical points of view. The conclusions that I draw from this case study are that the Dot Com Bubble did more to impede women from the IT workforce than to facilitate their entrance.
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U2 - 10.1145/761849.761860
DO - 10.1145/761849.761860
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0141963862
SN - 1581136668
SN - 9781581136661
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference
SP - 64
EP - 67
BT - Proceedings of the ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference
A2 - Trauth, E.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
T2 - Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference
Y2 - 10 April 2003 through 12 April 2003
ER -