Gender Differences in Leadership Style at the University Level.

This study was to examine the differences between feminine and masculine leadership style at the university level. It is a great conflict universally cross cultural differences vary, socially, behaviourally and politically in accordance at different levels. This study focus and manipulate the gender...

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Publicado en:International Journal of the Book Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 27 - 40
Autores principales: Abida, Khalid, Farah, Naz, Azeem, Muhammad
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Common Ground Research Networks 2010
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Sumario:This study was to examine the differences between feminine and masculine leadership style at the university level. It is a great conflict universally cross cultural differences vary, socially, behaviourally and politically in accordance at different levels. This study focus and manipulate the gender differences in leadership style. The two dimensions of leadership style were focused Task oriented and people orientated. Sample of the study was consist of 14 out of 20 universities of Lahore with convenient method.Questionnaire was adopted of TP T (Task) P (People) oriented leadership style by J.B. Ritchie and P. Thompson in New York (1984) from the book of Richard L. Daft (The leadership Experience) published in (2002). The data was analyzed through SPSS data analysis 16.0. The researcher applied one way ANOVA and t-test to draw the mean difference, variance, correlation with SPSS for finding the results. The key finding was that there is non-significant difference between gender leadership styles at university level. Statistics explored that females are more people oriented and Task oriented than men. The findings of the research might be helpful for new researchers in the field of gender differences in leadership style.