Leadership styles of men and women in the SMES

AD-minister

Laura Salas-Arbelaez¹  Edgar Gaviria Martinez¹ 

[1] Universidad del Valle;

关键词: leadership;    gender;    manager;    smes;    organizations;   

DOI  :  10.17230/ad-minister.31.2

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Differentleadershipstylesareexercisedaccordingtothegender(maleorfemale).Ontheonehand,women have been regarded as more transformational individuals than men, who, on the contrary, are consideredmoretransactional.Inthisregard,thisstudyidentifiestheleadershipstylepromotedac-cording to the manager’s gender in the SMES of the manufacturing and high technology sector in Cali. Tothisend,theMultifactorLeadershipQuestionnaire(MLQ)isappliedtoaprobabilitysampleof142managers. The results show that the transformational style predominates in the SMES for both men and women. Therefore, there is no meaningful difference between the leadership style of both. This research contributes to a new context in which the leadership style does not vary on the basis of gender, and it raises the idea that both men and women can lead similarly.

【 授权许可】

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