Question & Answer: What challenges do managers face in creating accommodating and safe work environments…..

The two major Challenges faced by Managers while creating an accommodating and safe environment for employees are as follows:

1. Overcoming Personal biases: Employees bring many preconceived ideas about others into the workplace. One outcome of our personal biases can be prejudice, a preconceived belief, opinion, or judgment toward a person or a group of people. This is one of the most important challenges being faced by the Managers. Managers need to handle judiciously about this situation
2. Eliminating Glass Ceiling: The term glass ceiling, first used in a Wall Street Journal article, refers to the invisible barrier that separates women and minorities from top management positions. The idea of a “ceiling” means that there is something blocking upward movement and the idea of “glass” is that whatever’s blocking the way isn’t immediately apparent.
   Potential causes for the glass ceiling have ranged from lack of mentoring, sex stereotyping, views that associate masculine traits with leader effectiveness, and bosses’ perceptions of family–work conflict.