Do men and women have different leadership styles, or are any differences rather superficial and not key to the major leadership styles? What did the world wide study find with regard to gender differences and leadership?
What will be an ideal response?
The cross-cultural study suggested that gender differences in leadership styles are
generally not large: From Figure 5.1, we can also see that there are some cross-cultural
differences in the gap between how often men and women use consideration-leadership
behaviors. The gap is especially large for the Nordic cultures, but there are some differences in
the Anglo cluster and in the other European cultures as well. The other cultures did not show the
gender gap for consideration. In contrast, cross-cultural differences seemed to be relatively
unimportant in explaining the small gender differences between men and women in initiating
structure: Only one culture differed from the others in its pattern of male-female differences in
initiating structure.
The Big Picture: (1) The authors concluded, “In this large worldwide sample, gender
differences in managerial behavior appear to be rather limited,” and male and female
managers “do not differ much in leadership behaviors” (Van Emmerik et al., 2008, p. 310)
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