Gender Differences and Leadership

Definition of Key Terms

• Gender is the state of being male or female• Leadership is the action of leading a group or

an organization

BACKGROUND OF STUDY • due to modern life style & chaotic life• changing of structural organization in some workplace/education sector• globalization turned many women strive for senior leadership position in every

sector• thinking of people to choose the best; women ; men

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM• people now argue that women cannot be a good leader. They tend to say that

there barriers whenever women becoming a leader.• differences between the leadership of women and men in life• the globalization turned the structure of organization where carrier women mostly

involved in a higher post

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT ARE• to examine the relationship between gender and leadership• to investigate which gender is more successful in leadership

RESEARCH QUESTION• RQ1. What is the difference between the

leadership styles of women and men?• RQ2. What do you expect when a women

become a leader?

SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY1)What did people’s opinion on how women can

control an organization?2) Who would be better in organizing some job?

Why?3) How much confident level of people to trust a

women in conducting some tasks?4) What criteria required in judging the best

leader?

SCOPE OF STUDY1) The best gender in having leadership2) Acceptance of people when the women

controls some organization3) Requirement to become a good leader4) Respondents mainly among students,

employers of government or private sector and academic learning centre.

METHODOLOGY

*30 UMP’s student ( 15 females ,15 males ) * Randomly selected from various courses and faculty

Questionnaire

– adults by the age of 18 to 20 years old – students or employers of government or non government sectors – 2 types of question

* Dichotomous* Ordinal-polytomous

Interview

– Interview sessions been conducted to a few respondent – 2 types of interview

*Standardized, open-ended interview*Closed, fixed-response interview

• Data Analysis

- All the data will be analyzed at week 7 - By referring to the data of collection, we can conclude the

result.

GANTT CHART

References

Muhammad Imran Qureshi Khalid Zaman, Mansor Nazir Bhatti (2011), The Impact of culture and gender on leadership behaviour : Higher education and management

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Wendy H.Mason, Gender and Leadership

Alice H.Eagly and Mary C.Johaneson-Schmidt, The leadership Styles of Women and Men, 781-797

Alice H.Eagly and Blair T.Johnson, Gender and leadership style : A Meta-analysis

Christine R.Gedney M, Leadership Effective and Gender

Linda L.Carci and Alice H.Eagly, Gender and Leadership