Increased realization of better knowledge management will inevitably create value to a firm, by which other partners of the value chain and the ultimate customers will be benefit. A first mover firm or value-chain with the capability of creating unique value is being considered as a core competence of maintaining continual sustainability against market challenges. Believing the fact, many firms are using IT enabled Knowledge Management (KM) for shearing information with the customers and suppliers. Although some firms are experiencing benefit from introducing need focused information system (IS), a considerable number of business units suffered huge financial investment without desired result or no result at all. As a consequence of these bitter experiences, advantages of IT enabled KM are being ignored and firm or firm’s value chain are being deprived from In-Time value delivery. So rightly spirited company must tailor it’s IT enabled KM system in order to achieving desired result as expected before start.
This study investigates employees’ attitudes towards women managers in different types of organizations in the context of Bangladesh. Two groups of respondents – supervisors of the women managers and other employees who report to the women managers were selected for data collection through a multistage procedure. The study found that employees, on the whole, have an indifferent attitude towards women managers at the workplace. Among different aspects pertinent to women's leadership, the employees demonstrated a favorable attitude about the women managers’ knowledge and skill, while the employees feel that maternity and other feminine issues make women less desirable in the managerial positions. As the differences were investigated among the respondents of different demographic groups, significant differences were found among various groups based on gender, age, and sectors of employment. However, no significant difference was found among the employees based on their reporting relation with (supervisor and sub-ordinate) the women managers.
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