Assessment item 1 - CriticalAnalysis
Critical Analysis of Reading 4.5 – Gender Differences and similarities in the leadership styles and behavior of UK managers by Titus Oshagbemi and Roger Gill

This report will critically analyze the article “Gender Differences and similarities in the leadership styles and behavior of UK managers” by Titus Oshagbemi and Roger Gill. It was published in the “Women in Management Review” Volume 18, Number 6, 2003 pages 288-298.
This report will assess whether the authors of the article “Gender Differences and similarities in the leadership styles and behavior of UK managers” have used non-biased or biased evidence and approaches to evaluate their argument.The report will comment on the author’s choices of evidence and their creditability as well as their methods of obtaining information for their argument and would recommend improvements for future articles or for other writers.

The authors attempts to identify the differences and similarities between the genders, male and female, in leadership styles and behavior for managers in the United Kingdom. The authors’ argues that there are significant differences between male and female. The authors’ first identify what other researchers have found by reviewing several literatures and then proceeding to obtain their own set of statistics. The statistics where obtained through a survey done in the United Kingdom then are thoroughly analyzed quantitatively before reaching a conclusion.

The majority of the literatures that the authors evaluates, only point out the positive aspects for female roles rather comparing or pointing out aspects for the male counterpart. The authors were supposed to identify the difference between genders but not just identifying aspects that the female gender has better than the male. This is misleading the reader to believe that females are better at