Women Are Better Manger

Women are Better Managers? Yes The New York Times set off a minor violent storm in the blogosphere with an interview a week ago with Carol smith, senior vice president and oral sex brand officer for the Elle Group, publisher of the fashion magazine Elle. The headline No Doubts Women Are Better Managers. You earth-closet imagine the reaction. The article was quit of a regular Sunday feature, The Corner Office, in which some exec spills the secrets to their winner in a question and answer format. Author Adam Bryant at one point asks Smith to share her observations on men vs women as managers. Her responseIn my experience, female person bosses tend to be part managers, better advisers, mentors, rational thinkers. Men love to hear themselves smatter. Im so generalizing. I sack out I am. But in a couple of places Ive worked, I would often say, C on the whole me 15 minutes after the meeting starts and then Ill come, because I give have missed all the football. I will have missed a ll the what I did on the golf course. I will miss the four jokes, and I can get into the meeting when its starting. Have to admit, loved the part about coming into the meeting 15 minutes late so she can miss the sports talk and the four jokes.The interview was on the Times web come outs most-read list for over a week, and garnered more than than 300 comments. The paper revisited the issue this past Sunday in its Room For Debate blog, postulation several experts about the differences between men and women as managers. Alice Eagly, chairman of the department of social psychology at Northwestern University, warned about overgeneralizing based on gender, but then made this observation Women are less(prenominal) bossy, probably because people dislike bossy women even more than bossy men. As a result, female managers are more collaborative and democratic than male managers.Second, compared with men, women use a more positive admittance by encouraging and urging others rather than a n egative approach of scolding and reprimanding them. Third, women attend more to the individuals they work with, by mentoring them and taking their particular situations into account. Finally, there is the matter of getting the job done efficiently. well-nigh managers, male and female, get their work done in a timely way, but some do not. When you find one of those barely functioning managers that is, someone who avoids solving problems and just doesnt get the job done, that person is more likely to be a man than a cleaning lady.Why? Perhaps because a woman would be fired or demoted more quickly for poor managing. Over at the web site for Workforce Management, editor John Hollon laments the whole subject, saying In my long career, Ive discovered exclusively one clear truth about men and women as managers. Its this You simply cant make a blanket judgment about the quality of managers by their gender. Anyone who tries to do so is chimerical and shortsighted, and perhaps hasnt work ed for enough different kinds of managersmale or femaleto figure that out. So what do you think? Do women make better managers? Or are some of them just too forthright?