Variations in Management Style between Men and Wonen in Social Services

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Variations in Management Style between Men and Women in Social Services In management within the social services context , the leadership style can be stereotypic since there are diverse guidelines on roles of a manager (A . H . Eagly B . T . Johnson , 1990 . These roles raise the social workers awareness of his /her duty (Gutiyrrez Lewis , 1999 Besides having these guidelines as the leads to playing his role , a social worker management style is based on identifying and building upon existing strengths of the people he is

serving , the social worker empowers , capacitates and enlightens mutually to help the people he is serving achieve various distinctions in their constrained lives (K . van Wormer , 2002

There are variations in management styles of men and women in social service . These variations are observed based on decision making styles of either female or male managers (Albaum , 2003 . However , social scientists argue that male and female leaders who occupy the same organizational role differ very little . Managers of both sexes are concerned about managing effectively than about representing sex differentiated features of societal gender roles (A . H . Eagly B . T Johnson , 234 . Kanter 's (1977a ) structural interpretation of organizational behavior of women and male managers is that apparent sex differences in the managers is due to different structural positions of the sexes in organizations and that women are in lesser positions hence behave in lesser manners

Women and men managers behave stereotypically with each manager (male /female ) advocating for the best in the job to expedite effectiveness and outdo the other sex . The difference in management behavior is accepted by both the public and social scientist with the difference being attributed to personal traits acquired during early socialization (A . H . Eagly B . T . Johnson , 234

Notable differences in men and women managers in social service lie within the organization behavior and management behavior culture Kristen argues that the ingrained differences in personality traits and character tendencies are indicative of the varying styles of management Most social scientist argue that women in comparison to men are friendly , pleasant , interested in other personalities , expressive and socially sensitive . In comparison to a man , a female manager portrays high interposal and task orientation aspects of leadership . Male managers show less aggressive approach to consideration and initiation of strategy while women are considerate and initiate structure of strategy . Male managers are blamed for high hardness while women conflict their gender and managerial role (Kristen 2003 , Eagly Johnson 1990 , Albaum , 2003

The conflicts of managerial style arise due to traditional aspects of masculinity as necessary to enforce and consistency . This leads to women being subjected to over-performing so as to attain goals important to the social service /institution due to gender bias . Attitudes towards women managers by workers are negative . This is due to perceptions about traditional roles in the society are deep-rooted within the male context of gender perceptions . It leads to the manifestation of the fact that workers visualize the subordinate position of the...