Cross-Cultural Management and Workplace Challenges for Women Managers in Pakistan: Exploring the Realities from an Emic Perspective

The influx of modern organizations in the local economy of Pakistan has brought many opportunities for women. This phenomenon though has created challenges for women employees especially women managers to manage workforce socialized on highly gender specific norms. There is reasonable scholarship available on this topic though no academic research is conducted on this issue from an emic perspective. This paper focuses on this glitch in the literature and explores the challenges faced by women managers in the service sector firms from an emic perspective. Qualitative research methodology has been employed and in-depth insight on the topic at hand was acquired to meet the target of this research. The study explored that women managers face different subtle and obvious societal and organizational challenges that includes the token position, glass ceiling, glass wall, harassment, unavailability of networking and mentoring relations.