Forskning om ledelsesstile blandt kvinder og mænd viser både forskelle og ligheder. Mens kvinder og mænd ikke adskiller sig i interpersonelt og opgaveorienteret lederskab i organisatoriske studier, har kvinder en tendens til at lede mere demokratisk og mindre autokratisk. Disse resultater understøtter social rolle-teori om kønsforskelle i social adfærd.
Titel på undersøgelse:
Gender and leadership style: A meta-analysis.
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Hele abstrakt på originalsprog:
Research comparing the leadership styles of women and men is reviewed, and evidence is found for both the presence and absence of differences between the sexes. In contrast to the gender-stereotypic expectation that women lead in an interpersonally oriented style and men in a task-oriented style, female and male leaders did not differ in these two styles in organizational studies. However, these aspects of leadership style were somewhat gender stereotypic in the two other classes of leadership studies investigated, namely (a) laboratory experiments and (b) assessment studies, which were defined as research that assessed the leadership styles of people not selected for occupancy of leadership roles. Consistent with stereotypic expectations about a different aspect of leadership style, the tendency to lead democratically or autocratically, women tended to adopt a more democratic or participative style and a less autocratic or directive style than did men. This sex difference appeared in all three classes of leadership studies, including those conducted in organizations. These and other findings are interpreted in terms of a social role theory of sex differences in social behavior.