Federal University of Cariri, Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil.
Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Scand J Psychol. 2024 Feb;65(1):86-97. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12957. Epub 2023 Aug 20.
Staines, Tavris and Jayaratne (1974) first introduced the Queen Bee Phenomenon (QBP). The term has been extensively employed to explain specific behaviors driven by organizational inequalities where women engaged in leadership positions actively restrain the opportunities of upper mobility for junior women. While the literature constantly addresses the causes and behaviors of this phenomenon, the current scholarship still lacks an integrated view of the QBP literature and a concise integrative framework that explores its triggers and consequences to advance research and provide evidence-based results to guide policy and managerial decisions. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify, analyze and synthesize the literature on the QBP. We conducted a systematic literature review engaging bibliometrics and content analysis. Our results highlight the current state of the art of the QBP literature and introduce a new integrative framework that shows the interplay between the triggers, traits and consequences of the QBP. We contribute to the field by integrating previous research in the field into a framework that synthesizes and connects the scattered literature. Our results are helpful for designing new organizational policies that reduce the impacts of the QBP in the workplace. The research agenda propose avenues for advancing our understanding of the phenomenon.
斯泰因斯、塔夫里斯和贾拉特纳（1974）首次提出了蜂王现象（QBP）。这个术语被广泛用于解释由组织不平等导致的特定行为，即处于领导职位的女性积极限制初级女性向上流动的机会。尽管文献不断探讨这种现象的原因和行为，但当前的学术研究仍然缺乏对 QBP 文献的综合观点，也缺乏一个简洁的综合框架来探讨其触发因素和后果，以推进研究并提供基于证据的结果，为政策和管理决策提供指导。因此，本文的目的是识别、分析和综合关于 QBP 的文献。我们进行了一项系统的文献综述，结合了文献计量学和内容分析。我们的结果突出了 QBP 文献的当前现状，并提出了一个新的综合框架，展示了 QBP 的触发因素、特征和后果之间的相互作用。我们通过将该领域的先前研究整合到一个综合和连接分散文献的框架中，为该领域做出了贡献。我们的研究结果有助于设计新的组织政策，以减少工作场所中 QBP 的影响。研究议程为我们深入了解这一现象提出了途径。
