Narrative 11-1 Unilever Has Operations in 150 Countries. Recently,Unilever Took 100 of 100

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Narrative 11-1
Unilever has operations in 150 countries. Recently,Unilever took 100 of these top managers on a jungle retreat to Costa Rica. To the dismay of Unilever's chair,no women were in the group. Upon investigation,he learned that only one woman had even been invited. As the retreat progressed,its participants commented on the richness of diversity in nature and how for anything to grow,there needs to be diversity. These comments caused Unilever's chair to establish an executive committee to examine practical ways to overcome barriers to women's promotion. They decided to avoid setting numerical targets because they encourage positive discrimination and instead examined recruitment and promotion practices.
-Refer to Narrative 11-1. After studying the problem,the executive committee discovered that the company recruited the same number of men and women,but women were not being promoted to the top management positions. Which of the following probably existed?

• A)an executive box  
• B)an impervious chain of management  
• C)a missing ladder rung  
• D)a glass ceiling

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Definitions:

Experimental Group

The subjects in an experiment who receive some special treatment in regard to the independent variable.

Dependent Variable

The variable in an experiment that is observed and expected to change as a result of manipulations in the independent variable.

Independent Variable

In scientific research, the variable that is manipulated or changed by the researcher to observe its effects on the dependent variable.

Correlation Coefficient

A numerical index of the degree of relationship that exists between two variables.