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Female boss when we described as "strong woman", "Iron Woman," "Rich Wives" when, in fact, there is some kind of subconscious is almost always the class feeling different and discernible with derogatory. We can accept a male boss, the legendary story, no matter how much of this legend in the real component;
But we suspect that a female boss can be compared with the same legitimate, honest, moral, way of achieving legendary success. Here we are actually facing a problem: people to accept a female boss has prepared a mature nature of the right mental?
Peak for women with the business sector a long-standing discomfort. As early as 1965, "Harvard Business Review," conducted by senior business executives, of which 2/3 of the male directors and 1/5 of female executives that work under the female boss uncomfortable. The many recent studies have shown that both men and women are not inclined to accept the leadership of female bosses.
Female boss unpopular?
boss? Here are some typical reasons for statements:
- Female boss a lack of courage. They are more hesitant, not decisive, "and their relatively low level of management, so they are easier to lose"; - something many female boss. "They were too sensitive to the views of others, they are easy to Leave the child"; - female bosses stingy.
They "remembered his old boss, them the boss of the shelf, you ignore her fear of the boss." - Women tackle the boss is easy to personalize. They are not professional, "vision is not enough"; - female boss more attention to efficiency and detail.
System they are slaves, the poor in the interest of small and fragmented services, "the people see too tight"; - female boss more fault-finding. "Women find fault than the man."
- Along with no face female boss. "You've seen what good men to women bag and the."
Woman was born a leader?
A significant number of studies have shown that these feelings are not working relations in the concrete is confirmed. So why there is such a very common female boss for the negative impression? First is a widespread social prejudices. Led by women in traditional and still popular men in the Culture represented a "disgrace."
second area where the female boss. From the industry said, women are considered more suitable for competent medical care, recreation, scientific research, commerce and trade and other fields of work;
Within the organization, women are considered more suitable as a deputy and middle managers; in the division of labor, women are considered more suitable for operational and administrative logistics such as the implementation of the transaction.
bias?
Debolatai able to "say: Who would be taking it and why," a book also reveals the authority of men and women express their views in the style of the time difference (but it will not be recognized as a personality and others capacity of the differences), can partly explain why people easily form some bias against female bosses:
- Women are more likely to appear in their speech, the uncertainty is more likely to raise questions. This tendency makes men more than women to show confidence and control.
- When describing the achievements of women more say "How do we," more men will say, "I will." This is just a different way of expression, but the men's individual characteristics will be more prominent, this form for outsiders feel for the different personality of particular influence.
- Women are more likely to express their negative feedback (but not that they only see the negative or more) and more likely than men to accept praise. This makes it easier for people to work with the generated pressure in women and the lack of incentive.
Female boss neutral tarnish?
Success as a team coordinator and leader in the growing need for owners and managers in their leadership style on the shape of gender characteristics acceptable, this is the so-called "neutral."
However, there is the same kind of social behavior of different social reactions, male boss's "neutral" more is that people interpret as a compliment performance, while the female owner of the "neutral" has provoked a level of rebound because it is stimulating to the inertia of the public mind the image of the ideal woman.
Female management style of inquiry that has prepared, on the team feel sensitive, stressed the clear authority, emphasis on communication and dialogue, fewer competing interests with a strong team member characteristics, which make possible a number of female business owners than the male boss more prominent advantages.
As the achievements of women leaders may have to withstand more challenges than men with psychological stress, they may be better equipped to understand the psychological condition of being a leader. This is why, in real life, a staff member to accept a female boss brought the leadership of the overall positive feelings might not lower than the male boss.