When a woman is the boss: dilemmas in taking charge
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Exploration is offered of the chance that encouraging women to act more dominantly in leadership positions could undermine rather than increase their effectiveness. A total of 188 graduate business school students participated in role-plating during two terms. Results suggest that women who implement a dominant approach are somewhat less influential overall than those who use a considerate, problem-solving technique, and much less influential when supervising males, rather than mixed-sex subordinates. Women who serve in subordinate roles tend to rate dominant female supervisors somewhat more highly than considerate ones. Female subordinates were found, however, to dislike their female supervisors more than men, and made negative judgements about them no matter what management approach was used. It is suggested that women seeking to be effective leaders should be encouraged to act considerately and build their participative management skills rather than act more like men.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1988
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The Self-Analytic Case Method: Changing Learners' Attitudes About the Utility of the Applied Behavioral Sciences
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The self-analytic case method is an instructional strategy designed to determine whether learners have misperceived their actions as being consistent with behavioral science theories. Five steps are outlined in preparing and working with self-analytic cases. Learners usually discover discrepancies in areas of behavior modification, motivation, and communication. A questionnaire is administered after using the self- analytic case method to determine the method's effectiveness. The method is successful in changing learner's attitudes about the value and scope of behavioral science concepts. This approach is recommended for either management training or classroom use.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1984
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Discrepancies between actual and aspired self: a comparison of leaders and nonleaders
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Abandonment of leadership trait research in favor research emphasizing situational factors may be premature. A questionnaire with 36 bipolar personality dimensions was answered by 189 individuals: 79 classified as leaders and 110 as non-leaders. Scores for leader and non-leader groups were similar along several dimensions, but differences were found for certain perceived-self and aspired-self items. Leaders perceive themselves as more talkative, more aggressive, less timid, less likable, more intelligent, more affectionate, less friendly, more committed, and more ambitious than non-leaders.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1986
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