...“Are Women Better Managers than Men?” APS 300 Fall 2014 Robert Ayer October 13, 2014 “Introduction” A question has developed over the last 20 or so years as more women are emerging as managers in the workplace. “Are women better managers than men?” When I conducted my research, most of the viewpoints were in agreement that women are better managers than men. Many articles pointed to the same study. In October 2011 Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman wrote an article in the Harvard Business review called “Making Yourself Indispensible.” In this article they listed 16 leadership competencies to be an effective manager. “They found in their study that women scored higher than men in 12 out of the 16 competencies by a significant margin.”(Anderson 1) Two of the competencies that women consistently scored higher on were “Champions Change”, and “Solves Problems and Analyzes Issues.”(Zenger and Folkman) To be an effective manager at Food 4 Less, a manager needs to be flawless at demonstrating these competencies on a consistent basis. Everyday a manager has to solve problems that arise. We are well versed in change at Food 4 Less. We are constantly changing policies, sign packages, or anything that will help take care of our customers. The female managers I have had seemed to perform both functions easily without much difficulty. Even though the research shows that women make better managers, other data supports that management is still considered an “all boys...
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...WOMEN ARE BETTER MANAGERS THAN MEN – AGREE OR DISAGREE? To determine if women are better managers than men, we will have to look at what qualities define a ‘good manager.’ While examining the qualities that make a good manager, we will have to be mindful that these qualities are ultimately decided by the perception of beholder. During this examination we will also have to look at gender and its impact relative to the qualities of a good manager, if any. Gender may or may not have an impact, but even then, one would have to decide how important each quality is in the scope of determining what makes a good manager as a first step. Each quality would then have to be weighed in relation to a male or female and what that means, if anything, to come to a conclusion on whether I would agree or disagree with the statement, “Women are better managers than men.” I believe that the first and most important quality of a good manager is the relationship that he or she builds and maintains with their staff. If a manager has a good relationship with their staff, then they will always have a solid foundation to build off of when performing job responsibilities such as pushing staff for optimal performance, delivering constructive criticism, motivating and invigorating staff, maintaining ethical and moral practices within the organization, developing staff skill set and providing career guidance, among others benefits. When led by an effective manager, all of these things combined can...
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...“Female vs. Male Leaders” What makes a good leader? Toughness, authority, drive, and determination? A lot of people would naturally serve up these attributes as being those of a good leader. Think about from where our habits and ideas on leadership originated. Most likely in the military, perhaps from Roman times, or even further back, Greek orators, European royalty. With the exception of some Queens at the helm, for the most part leadership through the ages has been male driven, top down hierarchical and authoritarian. More advanced military systems require discipline, control and following orders without questions. In the battle of the sexes, I observed and believe that women are better leaders than men. For recent studies show that women have certain characteristics that make them better leaders--though men still hold the majority of these positions. In the world of small business, there are more men than women bosses. However, two recent studies show that women may make for better leaders. According to a survey conducted by Chris Bart, professor of strategic management at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University, and Gregory McQueen, a McMaster graduate and senior executive associate dean at Still University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine, women actually run better performing businesses than men. Zeneger Folkman, a company that studies leadership, found that women rated higher than men on 12 out of 16 attributes tested. After analyzing 7,280 of their...
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...Practices Introduction Human Resources Management Practices Human resource management (HRM) consists of all practices or activities undertaken by a business organization to ensure that workers are fully utilized in order to attain personal, group and organizational goals. This essay evaluates a case study in which the human resource department of SK Holdings, South Korean company, has been recruiting more men than women, a practice that is common throughout the country. This essay finds that the HRM practices in this company do not align with the company’s business strategy, especially during the process of implementation of new technology. The essay further discusses how the hiring of more women would improve the competitive advantage of this company. A recruitment and retention plan for this company targeting women employees is also included. Potential obstacles that the company is likely to face during the process of recruiting more women are examined. Finally, the essay recommends some of the HRM practices that this company could adopt in order to the visibility of women employees. 1. How the HRM practices align with the company’s business strategy According to Lorber (2005), the HRM practical model represents effective solutions for issues related to gender inequality in organizations. The model values all people, irrespective of gender, in pursuit of goals within an organization. It stresses the role played by every individual within a given organization and presents...
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...differences(Rosener , 1990). Although the work of Rosener have shaken lots of studies to find out if gender really play a part in your work place, they all have difference in opinion. Given the number of studies that have been done on this subject everyone has came up with different findings. Gender differences in such styles such as leadership and management it is important to emphasize that the research results may not provide enough evidence of gender differences in actual leadership behaviour and management effectiveness. Rather, the study provides insight into gender differences in self-rating of leadership styles and management skills. Women in much of the research have found to have more skills and more pride in their work. Males have pride but lack the communication that is needed to provide self-skills in doing a great job. Women were found to listen and pay more attention than their male colleagues...
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............................................ 26 6.0 References............................................................................ 28 . ABSTRACT This study is based upon research previously that have been investigates and studied. Therefore the previous study will be main reference and it will state on literatures review, and then will be discussed in this study. The literature supporting issue suggest that women often have great success in performing their expatriates’ assignments than men and the literature not supporting issue will discuss about advantages over male side rather than women in expatriates assignments. These both literature issues will be discuss and compare on details in perspectives expatriate gender between male and female. The previous study have found, suggest that women often have great success in performing their foreign assignments, certain have stated that women and men performance expatriates equally same and also certain found that men will be much better perform expatriate task rather than female expatriates manager. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Business firms are increasingly becoming aware that the key to success in the marketplace rests with their ability to mobilize and utilize their human resource talent in formulating and implementing new global business strategies. To achieve that, many medium-sized...
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...and interviewing hundreds of line managers and executives at length, we’ve seen that companies get better results when they ease up on the control tactics. It’s more effective to engage managers in solving the problem, increase their on-the-job contact with female and minority workers, and promote social accountability—the desire to look fair-minded. That’s why interventions such as targeted college recruitment, mentoring programs, self-managed teams, and task forces have boosted diversity in businesses. Some of the most effective solutions aren’t even designed with diversity in...
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...Women prefer to work for male bosses... because they're 'better managers and less prone to moods' By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:42 AM on 13th August 2009 • Comments (32) • Add to My Stories Most women prefer to work for male bosses because they are less prone to mood swings, research revealed yesterday. Two thirds of female employees said they like having a man in charge in the office. Those questioned also said male bosses are more authoritative, straight-talking and better at making decisions than their female counterparts. [pic] Battle of the sexes: Two thirds of women say they prefer working for a male boss because they are better decision-makers than their female counterparts But the study did find the fairer sex are better at delegation and more likely to dish out praise. The statistics come ten days after Harriet Harman declared men in power can't be trusted. Labor’s deputy leader said: 'I don't agree with all-male leaderships. 'Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.' The results of the survey also revealed four out of ten women who have female bosses believe they could do a better job than their superior. A spokesman for www.OnePoll.com, which conducted the research, said: 'The results make interesting reading as there were pros and cons to both sexes.' The research found while women are good at dealing with employees' personal issues within the office environment...
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...seeking assistance in identifying the trends in their labor market, filling vacant positions, reducing turn overs and updating their affirmative action plan. Key Points This section contains the key issues for Tanglewood to address and rectify. * There will be employee shortages in the upcoming year that will require the company to seek outside sources in the form of new hires, temporary assignments and temporary hires. There will be a surplus that will require the company to enact a hiring freeze and internal promotion. * Tanglewood needs to reach out to the community to better promote their open positions within store associate, shift leader and assistant managers and capitalize on the current unemployment rate. They will need to change the marketing and promotion plans for the listed positions to boost hiring. * Tanglewood needs to be able to better match the minority and women representation within the community to remain complaint with the EEOC. They need to revamp their outreach programs for the position of shift leader. Analysis Tanglewood’s environment is going to be a challenge for their hiring needs. They have the availability of an unemployed potential workforce. They just need to figure out a creative way to market these opportunities. They need to find a way to sell the potential of the position to entice those from the urban community. The assumption is that those in an urban environment are looking for jobs that can show a real attainable...
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...now that were not in the past. One of the biggest issues today, which managers of a workplace must take seriously, is diversity. A big reason why this is applicable in our times is because everyone is able to work today. While not until 60 years ago, blacks were not able to hold real jobs. Also, women have become much more involved in the workforce than in years past. In this paper I will show explain what diversity in the workplace is, discuss some examples of diversity in the workplace, and how managers must take action to manage diversity in today’s economy. Diversity refers to human qualities that are different from our own and those of groups to which we belong; but that are manifested in other individuals and groups. Dimensions of diversity include but are not limited to: age, ethnicity, gender, physical abilities / qualities, race, sexual orientation, educational background, geographic location, income, marital status, military experience, parental status, religious beliefs, work experience, and job classification. Diversity as a concept focuses on a broader set of qualities than race and gender. In the context of the workplace, valuing diversity means creating a workplace that respects and includes differences, recognizing the unique contributions that individuals with many types of differences can make, and creating a work environment that maximizes the potential of all employees . A manager may have to deal with employees of much different ages. It is possible...
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...Organizations need to make sure that their employees follow the laws and guidelines in order to avoid being involved in legal battles. Organizational leaders can direct their managers and employees to follow the requirements by taking several steps. These steps include motivating employees, developing and maintaining programs as well as encouraging diversity. Xerox is one of those companies that strongly believes in diversity and have received positive rapport from top business magazines, news broadcasters and other corporations. The organization has made significant changes to accommodate minorities and women. Including these changes into their organization had resulted in promoting many women and minorities into higher positions. Discuss how human resources professionals can ensure that top organizational leaders encourage managers and employees to follow laws and guidelines. A corporation can reap the negative effects when employees fail to abide by the laws and guidelines. To encourage employees to follow the laws and guidelines, the corporation can initiate several steps. It is very important that the employees are made aware and to do so, the corporation must make available the necessary information to inform these employees. During the recruitment and selection process, human resources management should let possible and selected candidates know about the laws and guidelines that must be followed. This will ensure that employees are knowledgeable. Managers should also be schooled...
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...Public Policy and Management; University of Maryland; Carnegie Mellon 1,143 words 1 October 2003 Harvard Business Review 14 0017-8012 English Copyright (c) 2003 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Men and women are still treated unequally in the workplace. Women continue to earn less, on average, for the same performance, and they remain underrepresented in top jobs. Research has shown that both conscious and subconscious biases contribute to this problem. But we’ve discovered another, subtler source of inequality: Women often don’t get what they want and deserve because they don’t ask for it. In three separate studies, we found that men are more likely than women to negotiate for what they want. This can be costly for companies—and it requires management intervention. The first study found that the starting salaries of male MBAs who had recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon were 7.6%, or almost $4,000, higher on average than those of female MBAs from the same program. That’s because most of the women had simply accepted the employer’s initial salary offer; in fact, only 7% had attempted to negotiate. But 57% of their male counterparts—or eight times as many men as women—had asked for more. Another study tested this gender difference in the lab. Subjects were told that they would be observed playing a word game and that they would be paid between $3 and $10 for playing. After each subject completed the task, an experimenter...
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...harassment against women in the workplace. Males have predominately rules the workplace on Wall Street and had the perception of having no women take their glory. For years women were filling suits with the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) about the way men were treating them. Women were getting mistreated, demoted, harassed or even fired in some incidents for reasons beyond their control. Robert Thomann is a good example of the mistreatment that was being laid on the female brokers. Thomann was out on 8 weeks maternity leave and when she came back, her branch manager which was known as the tyrant demoted her. Cueno, her branch manager, said that any sexual harassment charges would be deliberated in the Boom, Boom Room which was located in the basement of the firms building. It was a room decorated like a fraternity with a toilet seat hanging on the ceiling. After I read that, I could not believe it. The way the men were acting and treating women is unbelievable. Something needs to change at Thomann and other women keep filling suits against these male dominated managers that were not scared of any repercussions of the way they were acting. They did not think that they were doing anything wrong because their mindsets were all about the males in that industry were better suited. For the women who have been with the same company for over 10 years and have proved sales wise that they are more qualified for upper level manager positions, they were...
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...research and study used. The effects of the Hawthorne studies towards management provided managers with a different way to lead and create an understanding of their worker’s behaviour. Giving insight on different ways the productivity of its workers occurred, the future of management was influenced by the methodologies created by the Hawthorne studies. However the studies themselves cannot be truly deserving of its scientific findings, it has contributed very much to the change of management. The Hawthorne effect provides management with a better understanding of the work behaviour and attitudes of physical, economic and social variables (Pennock, G.A 1930). During the years 1927 to 1932 of the industrial revolution the series of investigations for work behaviour were conducted with the use of five selected women at Western electric factory, Hawthorne, Chicago. The research found that over time productivity continued to rise due to the experiments socialisation of workers (Obrenovic, Z 2014). Even if a change of conditions was put in place to decrease the productivity of work, it was found the decline was not as much as predicted before (Obrenovic, Z). The result of the productivity was concluded to be because of the team dynamic, socialisation and the relationship between the managers and women (Carey, A 1967). Management for the research did not use direct approaches to the women but...
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...Effective Managers and Leaders Gary Martin Argosy University Introduction In this paper I will identify the characteristics of what I think are an effective leader. It will compare and contrast the differences between male and female leaders. I will evaluate based on gender the degree with which each gender possesses the leadership characteristics I will identify. Four characteristics of an effective leader One of the keys to being an effective leader is integrity, as the leader you must adhere to moral and ethical principles. The ability to influence and lead subordinates is directly tied to their belief in you and your soundness of moral character. People will not give their best efforts if they perceive a lack of integrity in the leader. Honesty is a must in a leader, people need to believe that you will be honest with them on all levels. Honesty goes a long way in building respect and a mutually beneficial working relationship. If the honesty of the leader is ever in question this will result in a fragmented and thus ineffective team. The work ethic of the leader must be above reproach. The leader has to lead by example you can’t expect people to work harder than you do. If you are in charge but you leave the office early everyday your nonverbal communication is clear, I have more important things to do than to be here working with the group. As the leader it is paramount...
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