ASIA PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

IN COLLABORATION WITH

STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY UK

BA (Hons) in Business Management

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Individual Assignment

“Critically evaluating the effectiveness of women leadership in business organizations”

(BSB10177-2 CR - CRITICAL REASONING)

Prepared By:
Charya De Alwis [CB004491]

[IF1371BM]

Date of Submission
26th May

Instructor
Mr. Anthony Marius

Submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of

Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Business Management

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INCOURSE ASSESSMENT SHEET

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BSB10177-2 Critical Reasoning

Individual Essay

| | Assessment Criteria |Allotted Marks % |Earned Marks % |
|C1 |Contents : (Currency, relevance and attention to details) |20 | |
|C2 |Validity : (Consistency, strength of the arguments and validity of the reasoning) |25 | |
|C3 |Suitable Conclusions drawn |10 | |
|C4 |Formatting (language, report format) |5 | |
| |Total Marks |60 | |
| |Penalty for exceeding the word limit | | |
| |Final Marks | | |

Personal Development Profile

| | Assessment Criteria |Allotted Marks % |Earned Marks % |
|C1 |Suitability and credibility of the sources |5 | |
|C2 |Application of critical thinking skills to filter valid and useful data |5 | |
|C3 |Integrate quotations into arguments. |5 | |
|C4 |Apply an appropriate referencing format (Harvard Referencing Style) |5 | |
| |Total Marks |20 | |
| |Penalty for exceeding the word limit | | |
| |Final Marks | | |

Acknowledgment

Table of Contents
Acknowledgment 3
Executive Summary 5
Critically Evaluating the Effectiveness of Women Leadership in Business Organizations 5
Introduction 5 First Argument 5

Second Argument 7

Third Argument 7

PDP 7

Executive Summary

Critically Evaluating the Effectiveness of Women Leadership in Business Organizations

Introduction

To maintain competitive advantage and sustain success in a fast-changing business environment, organizations must identify, nurture, and prepare the next generation of high-performance leaders for excellence. Executive Leadership Development: Analysis to Action is designed for the emerging leader who will navigate the firm through tomorrow's business challenges.

First Argument

Women are the most effective leaders

Over the last years women started overcoming the challenges of today’s and found success in a business world dominated by men. Women have made tremendous strides in facing challenges, and have provided tremendous contributions to our society as successful and effective leaders. There (http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Women-In-Business/121845)

Women leaders are more assertive and persuasive, have a stronger need to get things done and are more willing to take risks than male leaders. According to a research carried out by Caliper the women leaders scored significantly higher than male leaders in ego-drive (persuasive motivation), assertiveness, willingness to risk, empathy, urgency, flexibility and sociability. These strong people skills possessed by women leaders enable them to read situations accurately and take in information from all sides. This willingness to see all sides of a situation enhances their persuasive ability.

They can zero in on someone’s objections or concerns, weigh them appropriately, address them effectively and incorporate them into the grander scheme of things when appropriate. These women leaders are able to bring others around to their point of view or alter their own point of view—depending upon the circumstances and information they uncover. They can do this because they genuinely understand and care about where others are coming from. This allows them to come at a subject from their audience’s perspective, so that the people they are leading feel more understood, supported and valued.

Women leaders are found to be more empathic and flexible, as well as stronger in interpersonal skills than their male counterparts. (Caliper) Women are better known for possessing stronger interpersonal skills like empathy, flexibility and sociability. This combination of traits enables the women in our study to express a unique approach toward dealing with disappointment, rejection or situations that don’t work out their way. Dr. Greenberg explains, “They will feel the sting of being set back. They may even dwell on it, and tend to be a little self-critical. But then they will muster their assertiveness, shake off any negative feelings, learn what they need to carry on and a voice in the back of their heads will say, ‘I’ll show you.’”

Women leaders have an inclusive, team-building leadership style of problem solving and decision making. The women leaders are more interested in hearing all points of view, then making the best possible decision. The final decision did not necessarily have to be their initial point of view. They are able to read situations accurately and take in information from all sides, then make the most informed decision possible. Because women leaders are more willing to share information, they will also talk decisions through with many more people than their male counterparts

Women leaders are more likely to ignore rules and take risks.The women leaders are more likely to push back when they are overly bound by regulations and rules, engage in more risk taking and come up with innovative solutions. They tend to have a greater need to get things done than male leaders and are less likely to hesitate or focus on the small details. Dr. Greenberg says, “Women leaders are venturesome, less interested in what has been than in what can be. They will run the risk of occasionally being wrong in order to get things done. And with their fine abstract reasoning skills, they will learn from any mistakes and carry on.”

Second Argument

Women are not the most effective leaders

Extreme work demands can drum them out. Women are still performing the majority of domestic and child care responsibility in the home, even when there are two spouses working full-time. As such, and as long as women are bearing the children in our species, women will not view child rearing and child care in the same way as men do, and will prioritize the responsibilities around it differently. (Forbes)

Marginalizing of women is more common than we want to admit. Women are still being diminished, sidelined, suppressed, and thoughtless because they are different from the leadership norm. Further, women are pushed aside regularly when they make their family priorities known or demand time off after having a child (Forbes)

Women “Take Care,” Men “Take Charge”: Managers’, as the statement suggests, women are used to taking care of the house and doing household work while taking care of the family. The extreme demands of many 24/7 work corporate environments today represent an impasse to many women who wish to prioritize life outside of work more highly. Whereas men are used to being the breadwinner of the family, so it clear that the men have the ability take charge and be effective managers that earns for the family.

Personal accountability needs to be expanded. Women are and tend to be more emotional, moody and tend to get involve in office matters and other office politics. All these factors can influence the effectiveness of them being managers in company as they are more likely to give the customer and the other employees the wrong impression. Also women are more social and they enjoy spending time with loved, this will add more responsibilities for them which result in them not being effective leaders.(Forbes)

Third Argument

Women are suitable for specific jobs

Women naturally have better communication skills and more understanding skills, which makes them easier to work with.

Since women tend to be more caring and nurturing towards people and they view a problem with new perspectives and they are able to bring in new solutions. The society is used to viewing women as the mother figure, which shows that women are better at social and community work.

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PDP

(https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/women-leaders.aspx)

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/women-effective-leaders_n_5246730.html)

Quotation 1: "As more women have entered into and succeeded in leadership positions, it is likely that people's stereotypes associating leadership with masculinity have been dissolving slowly over time." Samantha Paustian-Underdahl, of Florida International University.

Quotation 2: When it comes to being perceived as effective leaders, women are rated as highly as men, and sometimes higher — a finding that speaks to society’s changing gender roles and the need for a different management style in today’s globalized workplace, according to a meta-analysis published by the American Psychological Association.

Quotation 3:

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