Geneder Differences In Leadership
The Debate: Do men and women have different leadership styles?
THE CASE FOR
By Susan Vinnicombe, Director of the Centre for Developing Women Business Leaders
Women do have different leadership styles from men. As Bodyshop founder Anita Roddick says: I run my company according to feminine principles principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy, having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labour where your love is, being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognising the bottom line should stay at the bottom'.
The problem with actually mapping these differences is that the successful male managerial stereotype is so strongly embedded in organisational life that female managers are pressured to conform to it, thereby confusing research results.
Interest in the impact of gender on leadership is relatively new. The first studies were conducted in the US in the early......
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