Age Leadership Styles

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-Age & Gender- and Leadership Styles: Impact of Age and Gender on Leadership Styles of Employees Abstract Keywords Age, Leadership, Gender, Active Leadership, Positive Affect, Effective Leader, Gender Roles, Negative Affect, Passive Leadership, Performance, Work Life Variables: Leadership, Age and Gender Research Area: Marketing Research Type: Research Paper Introduction Age and Leadership: The leader is an extraordinary person who Inspires, and has a long lasting effect of his achievements and success on the people at workplace. There’s a concept of “Natural Born Leader”, the people who born with the leadership qualities. The hurdles to enter the business world are less for such persons because of their extraordinary skills of influencing…show more content…
Some researches show that the men are more effective and efficient leaders than women. But some other researches proved opposite that there are some organizations that require female leaders, and take advantage of their “feminine” leadership qualities. (https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/apl-a0036751.pdf) Women are no doubt better leaders because they are hardworking and more likely to adapt dramatic and participative styles, and men are more likely to emphasis on power and control. These differences in age and gender affect the leadership behavior of individuals. There are many studies on influence of the age and gender on leadership styles. Mature leaders are more likely to understand their co-workers better and that helps them in dealing with their co-workers in a confident and efficient way. Leadership is also related to the understanding the fellow men and fulfilling the tasks altogether. Even due to gender also, there is a remarkable difference in the leadership behaviors of people in an organization.…show more content…
It is interesting to study these three styles because in terms of utilizing the authority of the Leader, Autocratic, Democratic and Laissez-fair fall at all the top, middle and lower management. 2. The other Leadership styles –transactional and transformational- are not chosen for this research because; they have broadly been studied by various researchers. 3. Pakistan is a democratic country and to test this percept, the democratic style has been chosen. 4. The Questionnaire to test all the leadership styles is costly and is not affordable for the researcher, this too is the reason to keep the research only to three Leadership styles. Problem Statement & Objectives: There is no research conducted on the relation between the employee’s leadership behavior and these two variables -age and gender- especially considering the ***** leadership styles in ***** organization located at **** town of Bahawalpur Pakistan. Thus this study plans to investigate and explore this relationship; the research problem is defined as follows: To explore the effect of Age & Gender on Leadership Styles of workers in the **** organization, located at the **** town of Bahawalpur,
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