The gender influence on leadership style practiced in the Romanian Government’s working apparatus (Office)
The gender influence on leadership style practiced in the Romanian Government’s working apparatus (Office)

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, the societies are still dominated by masculine values, prejudgmentsand stereotypes still aggravate the situation of women, who want to possess more and morepower of decision. Even if the gender policies are highly promoted with the purpose ofstopping the discrimination amongst genders, they don’t really have the expected result.Following this idea, this paper analyses gender influence above leadership styles practicedin the Romanian Government‘s Working Apparatus (Office), in order to see if womenpractice different leadership styles than their masculine gender counterparts, or this is onlyan opinion influenced by social values, and if they possess the necessary qualities to beperformant, efficient and even better leaders than men. The research is based on theoriesabout transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles(Burns,1978,Avolio, 1998; Bass, 1998) and has been conducted by using the MultifactorLeadership Questionnaire (Bass and Avolio,1994).The research results show that theleaders of the Romanian Government‘s Working Apparatus(Office)do not practice apredominant leadership style. They display a mix of characteristics of all three leadershipstyles which were studied, but manifest most strongly the transformational andtransactional styles, fact that makes leaders effective and able to achieve performance.Another important result of the study is that, gender does not influence the leadership stylesand the way that leaders act is influenced by other variables, that weren’t studied in thispaper.

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