PSYC 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Role

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Involves establishing oneself as a role model by gaining the trust and confidence of followers. State future goals and develop plans to achieve them. Encourage followers to develop own potential: transactional leadership. Reward and corrective planning (male leadership: laissez-faire leadership. Leaders occupy roles defined by specific position in a hierarchy and function under constraints of gender role. Gender roles exert influence on leaders- thus leaders dealing with 2 roles: joint effects of leader roles and gender roles. Agentic behaviour: behaviour that is independent, masterful and assertive. Engaged in more with subordinates than bosses no gender effect. Communal behaviour: behaviour that is friendly, empathic. Women tend to engage in more of it than men. People expect women to be more communal. Demands of female gender role and leader role are contradictory. Inconsistency b/w communal qualities associated with women and agentic qualities associated with a leader.

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