MHR 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gender Role, Transformational Leadership, Y Chromosome

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 600
• Professor: Genevieve Quintin

Document Summary

Women aspiring a top management position find themselves blocked from these positions by seemingly invisible, yet very real barriers (glass ceilings) Organizations want to keep men in leadership positions over women. Although women are increasingly advancing to positions of organizational and political leadership, the vast majority of these positions are still held by men. Female leaders are an exception to the norm. People tend to select women to lead under problematic conditions but prefer men to lead in more promising circumstances. When companies were on a downward trend participants evaluated the female candidate over the male as a more suitable and capable of leading than the male candidate. Women tended to lead in situations of crisis and men are intended to lead in most other circumstances. Gender stereotypes is a recurring theme in the explanations for the glass cliff: women seen as affectionate, empathic, cooperative, men seen as assertive, independent, self-confident.