Interactive Catalogue

The gender influence on leadership style practiced in the Romanian Government´s working apparatus

Literature Item

Author Information:

Name: Authors: Alina Profiroiu and Corina Cristiana Nastacă / The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Email: profiroiualina@yahoo.com

Website: https://international.ase.ro/21/

Abstract:

This paper analyses gender influence above leadership styles practiced in the Romanian Government‘s Working Apparatus (Office), in order to see if women practice different leadership styles than their masculine gender counterparts, or this is only an opinion influenced by social values, and if they possess the necessary qualities to be performant, efficient and even better leaders than men. This is useful to make visible other ways of working, and give value especially at the political level, and also affecting the power at the social and economic level of the importance of the participation of women in positions of power. In conclusion, the research showed that both female and male leaders, have achieved high and similar scores on the subscales that measured transformational style and the contingent reward (CR), which conducted to the idea that the leaders from the Government’s Working Apparatus were transformational leaders, innovative, visionary, involved in solving problems, concerned about motivating and rewarding subordinates, that put the collective interest before self-interest. About the characteristics of female leaders from Romanian Government’s Working Apparatus (Office), it could be concluded that they were efficient leaders, but it could not be said with certainty that they were better leaders than their male counterparts because the scores on the subscales related to efficient leadership styles were similar to those of male leaders or slightly lower. Female leader’s tendency towards the practice of laissez-faire style was low and they manifested mostly transformational and contingent reward behaviour (CR), making them efficient leaders, visionary, innovative, being capable of running a performant organization.

Keywords:

Awareness-raising, gender, influence, leadership, goverment

Dates:

Jan. 1, 2016 - Dec. 12, 2016

Source Specificity:

Initiative/Practice/Project/Programme/Case Studies, Public Policy Document

Website:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a1ZZSucH0PoR3Z1gCiK2aARW4C_F-rj4/view?usp=sharing

Power Domains:

Political

Methods Tools:

Gender Training, Awareness-raising

Country:

RO

City:

Bucharest

Implementation Scale:

national

Language:

English

Other Links:

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=471701