IMPLICATIONS OF LEADERSHIP

Implications of Leadership on Organisational Behaviour and Gender Equality

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Outline of the Study

The outline for this study is to find out the implications of leadership organisational behaviour and gender equality

Background of the research

Due to globalization and alterations in financial and communal conditions the role and self-perception of women in industrialized nations is spectacularly changing. The look of women in previously all-male occupations assists to this spectacular heritage change. Given these trends there are expanding likenesses in the management styles of men and women. Nevertheless, regardless of economic and social alterations in the function of women, certain convictions considering women in authority functions appear to persevere and these convictions evidently extend to flourish over cultures

Problem Statement

This study examines the potential for leadership on organisational behaviour and gender equality. In order to provide a base for the development of a strategy it is necessary to realize the place and importance of leadership and gender equality.

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the study is to find the implications of leadership on organisational behaviour and gender equality;

Significance

In this study, we will first give the experiential evidence regarding differences in leadership styles between both genders (i.e. “women and men”). We then explore the role of stereotyping on the basis regarding the association of gender and leadership. In addition, we explore the power of culture on these perceptions.

Research Question

The major research inquiries of the study are as follows:

What is the scope of leadership in an organisation?

How leadership effects on organisational behaviour and gender equality?

How well informed and / or aware is the general public / clients with these effects?

What are the implications of leadership on organisational behaviour and gender equality?

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

Context

An implicit theory is an implicit assumption about the world and others. Individual implicit theories affect their expectations and interpretations of the world around them. Stereotypes are a subset of the implicit theories that organize the expectations of others. Stereotypes are usually different than general attributes, groups of people. Although stereotypes often have negative connotations, stereotypes can be positive or negative, and they can accurately or inaccurately. (Avolio 2005 38)

Stereotype effects both the individual perceptions and their subsequent reactions to others. For example, if a person other individual first meets the assessment of the various new people as a means of self-protection, to determine whether the new person should be a friend or an enemy should be considered. Stereotypes allow people to quickly close, if not always accurate, someone else on the Internet and whether they are regarded as trustworthy. (2002 Ardichvili, 117)

Gender functions, Norms, and Stereotypes

Women have traditionally been stereotyped as more socially sensitive and interpersonally capable than men. In various studies, the traditional stereotype of women included attributes such as being less competent and less effective in tasks that are required for jobs outside the home, nurturing, compassionate, considerate, weak, and subservient, and emotional, subjective, tactful, aware of other's feelings, and having feelings that are easily ...