... Data from semi-structured interviews conducted with 66 senior leaders across Canada were analyzed. Findings Both men and women leaders across contexts perceive vision to be important. However, vision was perceived to be least important in the government context. Some gender similarities...

... gender-related differences in these behavior patterns that may explain the persistent gap in emergent leadership ascriptions between men and women. Design/methodology/approach We video-recorded verbal interactions of 34 zero-history three-person teams collaborating on a task in the laboratory. One...

...Korhan Arun; Saniye Yildirim Özmutlu Purpose This paper aims to analyze the impact of gender in leadership on strategic orientation and the relative impact of these strategic orientations on organizational performance with the leadership of each gender. Design/methodology/approach Cross...

...Gerry Larsson; Malin Mattson Molnar; Helena Tinnerholm Ljungberg; Christina Björklund Purpose The study represents a theory-based leadership approach in exploring the subordinate's perceptions of leadership behaviors in relation to age, gender and type of work environment. The aim was (1...

... occupancy. The goal of our research is to determine contextual (socioeconomic status and parenting quality), interpersonal (sociometric status), and personal (self-esteem and gender) antecedents of the motivation to lead among young adults. Design/methodology/approach The authors tested the model using...

...Yun Zhang; Qihai Huang; Hanjing Chen; Jun Xie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the double-edged effects of supervisor bottom-line mentality (BLM) on subordinates' work-related behaviors (work performance and knowledge hiding) and the moderating role of subordinate gender...

..., indicated, from a list of 14 possibilities, the role model category from whom they learned to lead. Respondents indicated their age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, educational level, hierarchical level and job function. Chi-square analysis was used to identify how these factors may have affected the choice...

... self-efficacy (LSE) and motivation to lead (MTL) in their future career. The authors further examine gender and socio-economic status (SES) as important moderators of the proposed relationships. Design/methodology/approach The present investigation consists of a two-study research design, based...

.... The commercial real estate industry was selected for the research because it is recognized to exhibit gendered dimensions that influence opportunities available to women (Jud and Winkler, 1998 ; CREW Network, 2015 ; Pauli, 2016). The thematic analysis presented advances the scholarship of leadership...

..., this study also investigates the moderating role of gender in the relationship between trust in supervisor and employee voice behavior. Further, this study proposes that gender moderates the indirect effect of perceived supervisor’s voice behavior on employee voice behavior via trust in supervisor. Design...

...John D. Politis; Denis J. Politis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between servant leadership and agency problems. Also, the paper seeks to determine whether gender plays a role in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach A survey of 276 employees...

... with an n=400 fulltime employed men and women, working for various organizations was selected. Findings The initial prediction was that identification is more important to women’s leadership aspiration to the extent that gender is associated with communal orientation, because women tend to have stronger...

... assumptions on follower perceptions of transformational leadership behaviors and the moderating role of the leader’s gender in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach A total of 108 leaders provided ratings of their Theory X and Y managerial assumptions; 398 followers then rated their leaders...

... of leadership roles. Originality/value – This study contributes to the leadership literature by furthering our understanding of the boundary conditions for transformational leadership in relation to gender stereotypes, situational strength, and social identity. We employed multiple methods...

... as leadership experience increased, but only for women. In contrast, the desirability of cooperation-related traits remained the same, regardless of leadership experience or gender. Practical implications – Overall, these findings suggest leaders learn to desire different traits as they gain leadership...

...’ expectations of each other, and especially disadvantage male leaders because of gender-role stereotypes. Design/methodology/approach – Two studies were conducted. In Study 1, data were collected from 61 dyads (25 male and 34 female supervisors, 23 male and 38 female subordinates, two participants did...

...Sarah Mei Yi Chua; Duncan William Murray Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study gender-based differences in information-processing impact on message perception, leading to women viewing the behavior of potentially toxic leaders more negatively than they are viewed by men. Design...

... a social networks methodology. Gender differences in committee members’ directive and supportive leadership influence were analyzed through two ANCOVA tests. Findings – Results confirm significant differences between men and women’s leadership influence, as rated by their peers, using directive...

... values in organisations in Singapore. However, gender is seen as a differentiating factor in the behavioural values of Singapore managers. Research limitations/implications – This study is purely an exploratory study and the size of the sample is not large enough to create purposeful causal...

...Angus J. Duff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider theoretically the relationships between performance management, a servant leadership style and leader gender, drawing from Hackman and Wageman's theory of team coaching to suggest a servant leadership style being optimally suited...