gender

Examples of gender in the following topics:

• Leadership and Gender

  • Studies on the role of gender in leadership success show mixed results.
  • Management guru Rosabeth Moss Kanter studied men and women in a large corporation and found that differences in their behavior resulted not from gender but from organizational factors.

• Trends in Organizational Diversity

  • Minority populations are generally defined according to race, ethnicity, or gender.
  • One difficulty with affirmative action is that it can encourage employers to fill quotas rather than avoid bias, potentially motivating some employers to hire specifically by race, ethnicity, or gender; hiring based upon any of these characteristics is illegal.
  • The social-justice trend also meant a shift from a more limited viewpoint of what constituted a "minority" towards a more comprehensive one that places age, physical ability, and sexual orientation alongside traditional categories of race and gender.
  • Gender differences offer a strong statistical example of this trend, as male and female wage equality has been consistently trending towards equilibrium.
  • This chart illustrates that while gender wage inequality is diminishing, further efforts are necessary to promote parity.

• Gender and Diversity

  • These barriers include filtering, selective perception, information overload, emotions, language, silence, communication apprehension, gender differences, and political correctness.
  • Further differences such as sexual orientation, gender, political views, age, and special needs are also highly relevant and are critical to consider for communicative success.

• Considering Cultural and Interpersonal Differences

  • Managers capable of contemplating the varying cultural, gender, or ethnic backgrounds of their workforce can optimize collaboration.
  • Managers who are capable of understanding the varying cultural, gender, or ethnic backgrounds of their workforce can optimize collaboration and minimize any friction that may arise as a result of these differences.

• The GLOBE Project

  • Gender egalitarianism is the extent to which an organization or a society minimizes gender role differences and gender discrimination.

• Barriers to Organizational Diversity

  • Though this gap highlights gender inequality in particular, the strength of the empirical data suggests that a glass ceiling could apply to any minority group.
  • Wages grouped by gender and education reveal a "glass ceiling" for women in the workplace, and the wage gap between men and women only grows as educational attainment increases.

• Defining Culture

• The Trait-Theory Approach

  • Demographic: In this category, gender has received by far the most attention in terms of leadership; however, most scholars have found that gender is not a determining demographic trait, as male and female leaders are equally effective.

• Personal Biases

  • Personal biases toward information, intelligence, gender, ability, handicap, race, or other closely held beliefs are detrimental to decision-making processes and are often hard to counteract.

• Team Communication

  • These include lack of shared vocabulary or understanding of key task-related concepts, divergent personal styles of expression, and insensitivity to differences in individual characteristics such as age or gender.