Płeć osób na stanowiskach kierowniczych a efektywność zarządzania
Management Effectiveness and Gender of Persons on Executive Positions

Summary/Abstract: The article consists of two main parts. The aim of the first one is to systematize knowledge about a manager effectiveness with particular reference to the attributes and determinants of female and men management style’ s effectiveness. The goal of the second part of the article is to recognize productive manager’s core competences which are being attached to women and men on executive positions by representatives of this occupational group, i.e. the managers. The questionnaire made by an expert panel has been used to garner empirical material. The population sample of 45 representatives of senior management was involved. The managers that took part in the research vary in the perception of women and men on executive positions. In the research, participants’ opinion about the women who hold executive position are largely (the average 4 and up on a five-point scale) marked with attaching importance to nice climate in a workplace, earnestness of the choring and setting high but realistic expectations toward employees. In the male managers case the following competences got the highest grade: thinking strategically and orientating a team work on long–term goals, making quick decisions, taking full responsibility for team’s work and also – as in opinion about women on executive positions – setting high but realistic expectations to employees.

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