DETERMINANTS OF WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SUCCESS THE CASE OF NYALA INSURANCE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the Factor that affects Women's leaders successful in leadership positions in the case study of Nile Insurance SC. The research used socioeconomic, individual, cultural and organizational factors to investigate women leaders’ success participation in leadership positions in the case study of Nile Insurance SC. To collect the data both primary and secondary source were used. Out of 358 employees simple randomsampling was used to solicit responses from selected 178 respondents. The study used standardized questionnaires on selected supervisors, team leaders and women managers from Nile Insurance SC Addis Ababa. The study employed explanatory and descriptive analyses. An explanatory analysis was conducted using both dependent and independent variables through SPSS version 20 software. Therefore, the result showed that women are indeed under different influence in the leadership of Nile Insurance SC. There are several factors at the individual, organizational, cultural and societal levels preventing qualified women from success in their leadership position. At socioeconomic level over burden in domestic responsibility was one of the main factors that hinder Women's manager success. At an organizational level policy environment to promote women, mentors and support system, women managers to form a professional network in leadership, Implementers of the polices are less committed in applying affirmative action in practice and Implementers have minimal knowledge of policies. On An individual level women still acknowledge the world as “masculine”. In addition, cultural barriers for women’s not being empowered, society still believes women have less capacity for managerial positions, society believes that leadership is assigned as the role of men and society the role of women is limited to household management. Therefore, it is recommended for women leadership positions to be successful effectively some of these barriers must be removed, and suggests ways helpful to enhance women’s participation in high leadership positions