Leadership as an attribute of management style of women from the Silesian Voivodeship
- DOI
- 10.2991/icseal-19.2019.2How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Organisation, leadership, management, feminine, gender
- Abstract
The paper has both theoretical and empirical nature and focuses on the feminine style of management as an important attribute of leadership in an organisation. The aim of the paper is to present diagnosis features the feminine style of management on the example of firms from Silesian Voivodeship. Empirical part of the paper presents analysis of the survey results within selected aspects of the feminine style of management in the enterprises examined. Primary data collected during a quantitative study using questionnaire surveys, with a survey questionnaire as a research tool. The questionnaire was addressed to randomly selected employees of small, medium, and big enterprises located in Silesian Voivodeship that is situated in Poland. Our results reveal that women are better suited for operational activities that require building good relationships than men do. Unfortunately, we also find that women in managerial positions are promoted at a slower rate and receive lower pay than men in the same positions.
- Copyright
- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Małgorzata Smolarek AU - Joanna Dzieńdziora AU - Magdalena Wróbel PY - 2019/05 DA - 2019/05 TI - Leadership as an attribute of management style of women from the Silesian Voivodeship BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social, Economic, and Academic Leadership (ICSEAL 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 3 EP - 11 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseal-19.2019.2 DO - 10.2991/icseal-19.2019.2 ID - Smolarek2019/05 ER -