Career Advancement for Women: What Is the Prescribed Path for Success?
Abstract
Are women prepared for senior management positions? A culturally diverse workforce is becoming a reality in the United States. As the workforce is rapidly becoming more diverse than in the past, increased female participation raises an issue that leadership must address. Unless businesses and organizations properly train women for significant jobs, they may have a difficult time competing. The Developmental Test Command (DTC), the customer s (Army, DoD, industry, etc.) preferred tester of choice, is currently mentoring, training, and developing their female employees to compete for senior management positions. As part of DTC s strategic human capital planning, DTC leadership is providing highly potential female candidates for career advancement programs such as the Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Cohort, Harvard University Program for Senior Executive Fellows, Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Senior Service College Fellowship (SSCF), and other developmental assignment opportunities. DTC understands the importance of the diverse workforce and realizes the potential long-term pay-off for developing the next generation of DTC female leaders to continue the legacy of the DTC mission and vision. This planned research will review the career advancement paths of the DTC female employees at the senior analyst/management levels (General Service [GS]-13 [pay band 2], GS-14/GS-15 [pay band 3], Senior Executive Service [SES]) by examining the perceived barriers and facilitators of advancement, developmental experiences, and career histories. Examining the career paths will identify the key or keys to achieving success.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA549379
Entities
People
- Deirdre J. Sumpter
Organizations
- Defense Acquisition University