Do Women Make Good Bosses?

| Wednesday, July 27, 2011
By Ruth Williams


One of the most controversial issues facing the business world is whether female bosses can perform as well as men. Undoubtedly, the answer is yes. According to research from some of the world's top business schools, female bosses can rival the best male bosses and often out perform them. The New York Times recently featured an article claiming that female bosses are more prepared to collaborate and have a more democratic attitude than men.

That same article cited research which showed women are more encouraging of employees than men. Because of this, female bosses are able to achieve a higher level of productivity from their employees. Employees are likely to work harder for an boss who offers praise and encouragement.

Research also shows that women are more efficient in completing tasks in the workplace. Women are better at delegating and seeing that work gets done. They are more effective at mentoring employees in the workplace, generally employees will stay with an employer for longer periods of time because of this.

The author Joanna Barsh has written about equality in the workplace in one of her leading books. Her book, "How Remarkable Women Lead," discovered that women have a positive impact on the workplace through emotion. When women use emotion in a positive way to lead, they have a powerful impact on employees in the workplace. Women have a good ability to also build relationships with clients which last for years.

Ms Barsh did find one area in which women can improve their skills as leaders to achieve equality in the workplace. It was found that women are able to effectively multi-task even when undertaking major projects. But perhaps they should learn to focus on one major task at a time. This will allow women to become even more effective leaders. Men are only able to focus on doing one task at a time, which means they can be incredibly effective in giving dynamic presentations to employees in a workplace.

Women as leaders are able to encourage dynamic and open minded thinking from their employees. Women are able to appoint employees to take on a job in a direct way, rather than sit around a conference table and tell jokes. Women have a direct way about them which makes them effective leaders in the business world.

Finally, women managers tend to have a positive impact on subordinate workers. Experts have identified that women managers are more likely to challenge harder for subordinate employees to receive higher pay.




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