1. MANAGEMENT STYLE: MODELING OR BALANCING?
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Stimpson, David V. and Reuel, Lisa K.S.
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EXECUTIVES' attitudes , *WOMEN executives , *MANAGEMENT , *WORK environment , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) - Abstract
SUMMARY An examination of the style of managers (N = 155) in a simulated work environment shows that they tended to model the style of their boss. Females evidenced this tendency to a greater degree than males. Furthermore, when the boss was a female, male subordinate managers became somewhat more participative than the boss, while female subordinate managers became more authoritarian. A compensatory or balancing hypothesis is proposed as a possible explanation for this sex difference. These results should not be generalized beyond an American population. Possible cultural differences were not explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1984
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