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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Men vs. Women Manager

Managing a team is not an easy task and it needs lot of hard work, patience, management skills. They are the persons responsible for planning and directing the work of a group of individuals, monitoring their work, and taking corrective action when necessary.

Men and women managers have different traits to lead a team. As they are polls apart, they use different ways to manage a team. But who can be a better manager that is a debatable topic. Many people have different views on working under men and women managers. Have you ever found managers of one gender to be easier or more difficult to work with?

Here are some characteristics that men and women managers have:


Behavioral differences
Men and women mangers differ in their behavior towards their employee. They have different leadership style to handle a team. Men managers are mostly task oriented. They give command and try to control their team with their power. Moreover they are more into punishment oriented, for e.g. if any of their employee made any mistake they are ready to punish them rather making them understand the problem. They are more practical towards work life.
However women managers are vulnerable to office politics. Moreover emotion takes a very important part in their life and sometime it comes between them and their work life. But they can understand the problem of their employees well and are ready to sort it out.

Different ways to dealing a team
Men managers lack sensitiveness; with the managerial power they try to dominant their subordinate. But women have the sensitiveness in them and they believe in proper communication with their team. They use smoother way to express work-related demands and needs. Women managers empathize with their employees and give them task that they are good at. This positive act make the employees perform better and faster.

Balancing professional and personal life
Women can play the role of mother, wife and a professional. They play a versatile role between their work and personal life. They can balance both their personal life and professional. They have the quality of nurturing and understanding of people. They can manage well in their work and life stress situations. However men need not balance everything as there are always women who take care of their home. Men tend to burst out their problem at office if they have any personal issues.

Courtesy: SiliconIndia

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