Senior Female Managers in the Irish Hospitality Industry based in Dublin: the barriers and challenges encountered with career progression and how they can be overcome

Giblin, Clíona (2024) Senior Female Managers in the Irish Hospitality Industry based in Dublin: the barriers and challenges encountered with career progression and how they can be overcome. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

This research sets out to analyses and understand what barriers and challenges are faced by senior female managers in the Irish hospitality industry with their career progression, primarily focusing on the hospitality sector in Dublin and how these barriers might be overcome. The research is set out to primarily undercover what the main barriers are for senior female managers and recommendations have been put forward to help improve these challenges in the future. To understand and examine the continuous threads as to why female managers are faced with these barriers and challenges in the hospitality sector in Dublin, following research on secondary data, this research undertook a qualitative method approach by conducting semi-structed interviews. The semi-structured interviews were accomplished with six senior female mangers within one of Irelands biggest hotel chains and were interviewed across three of their hotel properties. The purpose of conducting these interviews is to understand what the common factor or themes are that occurs regarding the barriers that they face in their career progression as being a woman in the Irish hospitality industry. The researcher discovered from conducting the interviews compared to that of the secondary data, that self-imposed barriers were the most common theme with each participant. A thematic analysis approach was taken to analyse the qualitative data from the data collected of the semi-structured interviews which allowed for common threads and themes to be identified. From conducting both primary and secondary research, the researcher hopes from its findings that recommendations can be put forward to help senior female managers overcome these barriers and the stages of improvement that the sector can put into action which included that of mentorship programmes.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Supervisors:	Name Email Fitzgerald, Maurice UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Irish Hospitality Industry; Senior female managers; barriers; challenges; career progression; mentorship; leadership
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management > Careers D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > Ireland > Dublin H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Specific Industries > Hospitality Industry H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Issues of Labour and Work > Classes of Labour > Women and Work
Divisions:	School of Business > Master of Arts in Human Resource Management
Depositing User:	Ciara O'Brien
Date Deposited:	16 Jun 2025 11:10
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2025 11:10
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/7858

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