the imperative female leadership
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The Imperative Female Leadership How Can Women Use Gender and Sex Role Stereotypes As An Advantage In Leadership Andi Eastwood
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What’s Changing Business ?
Gender Stereotypes & Sex Roles
Organizational Changes
Female Advantage
What’s Changing Business?
• Global Market• Increased Export and Importation• Trade• Outsourcing
• Baby Boomers Retiring• Less Available Workforce
World merchandise
exports increased over the postwar period, from 7 %
of world gross domestic
production in 1950 to 17.1 % in 1993 (Krugman,
1995). .
The age cohort that follows the Baby Boom group is approximately 18% smaller in both the
United States and Europe (Beeson & Valerio, 2012).
What’s Changing Business?
• Available Female WorkforceAccording to Catalyst, in 2008-2009
women earned 36.3% of MBAs
(as cited in Beeson &
Valerio, 2012).
Over the next decade the amount of
women achieving
graduate or professional degrees will increase by
16% (Cormier, 2006).
FEMALE TRAITSStereotypes of women often include characteristics such as being gentle, emotional, intuitive, dependent, sensitive, passive, illogical, nurturing, warm, and accommodating” (Kunkel & Dennis, 2003).
The expectation is that leaders in managerial positions are assertive, authoritative, objective and driven ; characteristics associated with masculine stereotype.
MALE TRAITS
Gender Stereotypes and Sex Roles
Women have been viewed in the past as weak or unable to handle the pressures of
leadership because of being softer than their male
counterparts.
FEMALE TRAITS•Emotional•Communicative•Softer on employees•Caregiver / Nurturing•Multi-Task•Flexible•Sensitive•Collaborative / Teamwork•Humble
•Powerful•Assertive•Natural Leaders•Non Emotional•In Control•Competitive•Independent•Decisive•Logical
MALE TRAITS
Gender Stereotypes and Sex Roles
The opening of the emerging economy is causing an increased access to global consumers and suppliers.
These structural shifts and the increased access to global workforce combined with technology that enables global collaboration in creating a flat business world (Gerth & Rothman, 2007).
This flat business is one that has reduced barriers of communication and has flattened the hierarchy of management.
Organizational ChangeTransition to the future
Organizational ChangeTransition to the future
•End of Hierarchy•Team Based Process•Participative•Decentralized Decision Making
Transactional Leadership• Transactional leadership is a process in
which the subordinate’s needs are met if their performance measures up to the leaders expectations (Anantaraman, 1993).
Transformational Leadership• Transformational leadership is
characterized by organizational change and involves the leader to articulate the vision in a way that motivates others to subscribe (Kaslow, Falender & Grus, 2012).
Organizational Change
Organizational Change
Moving towards the future…
Changing Business Environment
As Baby Boomers retire the number of women in the workforce continues to increase
The future of organizational management continues to change
•There is some research that shows evidence that woman managers tend to use more of a transformational leadership style than transactional (Singh, Nadim, & Ezzedeen, 2012). •Women’s sense of connection with their employees and general concern for their welfare instead of a concern for their own power is helping them to be naturally transformational leaders.
Female Advantage
•Because women tend to naturally have the characteristics described as a transformational leader they will be assets to the changing business organization. Women are comfortable with diversity and prefer direct communication instead of the up and down chain of command (Hegeslsen, 2008). •What was once considered a weakness in female leadership style is now becoming the preferred methods and gaining global attention.
Female Advantage
Women’s kindheartedn
ess and warmth help them to form
stronger bonds with
global clients.
Women are more
collaborative and relational
than male counterparts which can be an asset in
today’s organizations.
Women are better at
motivating others & fostering
communication.
The gender stereotypic
female leadership
style attributes women to
being friendly,
unselfish, and emotionally expressive
Women bring a different
management style that is
more inclusive and
as leaders they draw on
others expertise
before making
decisions
Female Advantage
•In order to test this theory a survey of global organizations must be created.
•Survey would measure the ideals of upper level management as well as those throughout.
•Research on historical organizations climate and progress in relation to changes to transformational leadership
The Research
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Stage 6
ConclusionThe growing economy and changes in the global market will cause a demand for female leadership and the natural transformational leadership they poses.
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