I've had only two female managers in my old corporate enterprise career – and they were both horrible (like out-of-their-mind-insane horrible), but I attribute that to the individual person being nuts, not a gender thing. I've always had better 'luck' with male managers. My thinking is actually that it's a clash between Alpha-Female & Alpha-Female <grin> and that in my experience working with men that are good leaders has been a better fit for me.
Now as far as working with peers – I work equally well with women as with men. I think it has to do a lot more with a person's work habits, ethics, and style than a female/male thing.
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With one exception, all of my best bosses in Human Resources have been women.
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I like girls. #ThatIsAll
girls are not to be liked they have to be respected difficult to be girl or woman
I cannot believe your comment in this day and age +salman ahmed.
+Judy Gombita see, I reported/blocked/deleted all that garbage he put in the comments. My Google+, my rules & all <grin> +Jeff Gibbard is a personal "IRL" friend of mine for the record
I've worked for three abusive bosses in my 20 years of traditional office work and they were all women I also found that the men I worked with were less likely to backstab, get catty or gossip. However, whenever I bring this up to women they all tell me it must be that I'm difficult to work with.
I did work with and continue to have good relationships with many women I worked with, but my experience with female bosses hasn't been positive at all.
it is difficult to be a girl or woman and difficult to understand their problems
woman understand woman better
because i have seen my mother struggle
I've only had one female 'boss' in my life and she was great. Just a friendly normal person. Most good / bad things are just dependent on the individual, and not really on the gender. I don't really make a distinction anyway.
My experience is similar to Lynette's (only one female superviser, and she was nucking futs. I'd still cheer if I ever heard she died in a fiery car crash or something) but I agree that it's a happenstance thing. My personal theory is that until we get into a more sane place with respect to what leadership is "supposed" to be about, only the crazier people "make it" to the top. But working with other women? Awesome.
Interesting article.
For the record, my comment was said in jest.
I actually prefer working with women in most cases. Especially since so much of my business involves cultivating a culture of empathy. Women are often better suited for compassion and empathy.
woman understand woman better
may be crazier but even though it is difficult to be a female
Most awesome bosses of mine have been men. I have only ever had 2 women bosses and they did not possess the leadership skills that I would expect in a boss.
a woman may be a sister or a caretaker a teacher depends but strugles for her survival i have seen many people in my country
I actually find it incredibly sad when it's women who are dumping all over other women. Particularly when, statistically speaking, the opportunities to advance have been so limited, culturally, financially, etc.
that's because of jelousy or inferiority complexes in the mind that can be treated this is usual
+Judy Gombita I don't like it either, but for me, my experiences working with women haven't always been positive.
Perhaps it's the sector(s) you've worked in +Deborah Ng: not overly female-friendly regarding management.
I've always found it very interesting this topic brings out the crazy in the comments.
I was thinking about this leadership/boss thing. There is a big difference between the two. Out of all the people I have worked for, there is only one person that I would follow to another opportunity/job. In general, the common workplace does not promote enough leadership education that trickles down to lower level management. You know that saying "Leaders are not born, they’re made"
woman are kind and sincere hard working to profession i have a great reagard for woman any where in the world
After I left the Air Force (20 years), I went into human resource management, first for the state of South Dakota, then in private business (well, publicly-owned private business). In my first job, my immediate boss was male, but the person in the state capital with whom I worked most directly was female. She was okay, but she was a career bureaucrat; I'd see way too much of that in the military.
My next job, my direct boss was a woman, and she was a damned good boss. She was a CPA, and our comptroller. So, her only drawback was that she saw things in black and white. I'm a shades of gray kinda guy. But we got on well, and when we both left the company at about the same time (she for a promotion, sort of; me, for what I thought were greener pastures) we parted as friends. In fact, after a couple months, she sent out a feeler to see if I were interested in coming to work for her, but I missed a great opportunity.
Next job was in, technically, a woman-owned business, except it was a subsidiary of a much larger company. So, my boss (in another city) was female, and so was her boss. In fact, I was the only male in the entire HR department. While I didn't always agree with my bosses, that isn't to say they were at all bad. Were they better than men? No. Worse? No. (I should point out that in both of my private sector jobs, I ended up working for male bosses before leaving.)
In my last job, it was evident, especially as time went on and the parent company went into Chapter 11, that my boss and her boss were both banging their heads on the glass ceiling. For that, I felt bad for both of them. Unfortunately in too many industries/companies still, that glass ceiling thing probably has a negative effect far beyond pay inequity.
they are made by the woman power from motherhood to leadership charecter
she must be a strictyer person that's all
businesses in general ciould benifit from exploiting the strengths of men and women. we have different strenghts and weaknesses. women are better multitaskers in general and men are better at focus driven tasks. women are able to intermingle everything at one itme coherently where as men need to seperate everything and conquer it one at a time to escape a mental blowout .
it is not the matter of business or male or female it depends on the capacity of the male or female
+Deborah Ng I was actually having a conversation this past week at SxSW on a similar topic. It was noted (not by me) that a good deal of times when women finally get themselves in a position of rank or power they can be very cutthroat and not helpful to other women. It's not as if there are only x amount of spots for women and if you take one they lose one. Personally I feel it's an age/generational thing as women 20 years my senior grew up and had careers in a much different environment. For me, while it's a bit tough to swallow that women 20 years my junior have different (and hopefully better) opportunities than I had, I look at it with pride, hoping in some small way I paved the road ahead just a bit smoother.
As a side note, my Internet connection is wonky today, must know somehow I put up a crazy post in Google+. Thankfully +Comcastcares is working on it!
I've had two immediate supervisors who were women. Same company. One was great and offered me a lot of useful advice (I was a co-op student). The other was certifiably nuts.
I've had male supervisors and managers too who have ranged from great to bonkers. So you're right, not a gender thing.
After thinking about it, I've had male managers that were nuts too. Difference is with them is that I had no problems at all getting right up in their face and getting them to cooperate or back down. Not so much with the women.
I wonder if you aren't onto something there, +Lynette Young . Asshole male managers are very common and not so surprising. In some ways that makes them easier to ignore or to deal with.
Yesterday I was at an executive briefing session put on by the VitalSmarts people +Lynette Young. Do you know the groundbreaking (quite awesome) book, Crucial Conversations? It shows how to hold those necessary conversations, without even the need to get up in someone's face! Highly recommended.
(I went away with the new Influencers book the company published fairly recently. I want to compare it to +Philip Sheldrake's The Business of Influence book that I read last year.)
My female manager was even nuttier with other women. One of my coworkers was pregnant, almost due. Our manager had this crazy scheme to request time off. Fill out a form she created. 7 days after submitting it she would look at it. In another 7 days she would approve or deny. In another 7 days was the earliest we could take off. So yes, minimum 21 days notice for time off. And this included doctor appointments. My coworker had to go to the doctor on a moment's notice. Our manager stood outside the elevator waving the form around shrieking "You're fired! Don't come back! I didn't approve this! You're fired!". After the doors closed she marched back into her office, called HR, and screamed at them the woman needed to be fired. Apparently that call didn't go as she hoped.
totally agree! why are the women weird? I began to think many lack professional skills, they simply bring the marital/homemaking skills instead, which didn't work for me. I have a mother already, and I'm single.
they have too much of work and tension and strees is the main cause
nice 🙂
Maybe its a MBTI thing and not a chromosome thing.
I've worked for crazy women and some crazy men bosses. I have also worked with very competent male and female bosses. I think it just depends on the specific individual and their level of confidence in their job.