Gender Differences In Management
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MANAGEMENT It is generally acknowledged that entrepreneurship is an important driving force in economic development and in the world, through processes of business dynamics, innovation and job creation. ... My goal in this essay is to write out whether there are differences between female and male managers how they operate differently from each other. Also knowing the differences between male and female managers can also lead to a way for improving their skills and benefiting. ... Many of the differences between female and male entrepreneurs can be ascribed to differences in firm size and sector. ... It can be expected that gender differences in the real estate business be more pronounced since women have only recently started to enter this business. Further research on gender differences has mainly focused on the personal characteristics of female entrepreneurs, such as their labor market experience; motivational issue, personality characteristics and the extent to which they encounter racial problems such as discrimination and sexism. ... The present study attempts to fill this gap and focuses on gender differences in strategy and human resource management in the Dutch real estate industry. ... Most research on gender differences in entrepreneurship has focused on studying the influence of gender within a small range of dimensions or even for a single dimension, such as finance or motivation. Moreover, gender is often merely used as a control variable in which case findings are usually not elaborated upon extensively.