Open AccessMale Menopause And Decision-Making: A Qualitative Study
Author(s) -
Gerrit Claassen,
Willem Schurink
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
sa journal of human resource management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-078X
pISSN - 1683-7584
DOI - 10.4102/sajhrm.v3i1.57
Subject(s) - menopause , meaning (existential) , power (physics) , qualitative research , white (mutation) , psychology , social psychology , work (physics) , gerontology , gender studies , demography , medicine , sociology , social science , psychotherapist , engineering , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , gene
The purpose of this study was to explore how a small group of white South African men going through menopause attached meaning to this major event in their lives, and also how it affected the decisions they took as leaders in the financial sector. The findings indicated that menopause symptoms in particular (physical, psychological and sexual dimensions) had a profound influence on the systemic male. A provisional substantive theory was developed – “work power trade-offs result in decreased decision-making power during the male menopause? – and a number of recommendations were propose