Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives
The growing global need for social cohesion and sustainable development gives visibility to cooperatives because their principles help to achieve these objectives and the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among them, gender equality policies are in the forefront. This paper explains...
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| author | Martinez León, Inocencia María Olmedo Cifuentes, Isabel Martínez Victoria, María Del Carmen Arcas Lario, Narciso |
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| description | The growing global need for social cohesion and sustainable development gives visibility to cooperatives because their principles help to achieve these objectives and the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among them, gender equality policies are in the forefront. This paper explains how cooperatives contribute to women’s professional opportunities and to balancing the presence of women in management positions. It analyzes the predominant leadership styles and gender differences in cooperatives with a sample of 114 cooperative firms. The results show that: (a) Both transformational and transactional leadership styles are widely used; (b) no significant differences in leadership styles between men and women exist; and (c) the composition of management teams results in significant leadership style differences. The transformational style is less often used in mixed teams with a male majority and a woman president, and most often used in homogeneous teams (made up of only men or only women). Transactional leadership is more frequently implemented in teams made up only of women than in mixed masculine teams with a female president. These findings identify women’s leadership styles in cooperatives, pointing out their difficulties and introducing innovative proposals for contributing to their success and the achievement of SDGs in cooperatives. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-83032023-04-12T19:09:30Z Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives Martinez León, Inocencia María Olmedo Cifuentes, Isabel Martínez Victoria, María Del Carmen Arcas Lario, Narciso cooperatives sustainability Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) leadership style transformational leadership transactional leadership gender differences The growing global need for social cohesion and sustainable development gives visibility to cooperatives because their principles help to achieve these objectives and the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among them, gender equality policies are in the forefront. This paper explains how cooperatives contribute to women’s professional opportunities and to balancing the presence of women in management positions. It analyzes the predominant leadership styles and gender differences in cooperatives with a sample of 114 cooperative firms. The results show that: (a) Both transformational and transactional leadership styles are widely used; (b) no significant differences in leadership styles between men and women exist; and (c) the composition of management teams results in significant leadership style differences. The transformational style is less often used in mixed teams with a male majority and a woman president, and most often used in homogeneous teams (made up of only men or only women). Transactional leadership is more frequently implemented in teams made up only of women than in mixed masculine teams with a female president. These findings identify women’s leadership styles in cooperatives, pointing out their difficulties and introducing innovative proposals for contributing to their success and the achievement of SDGs in cooperatives. 2020-07-06T09:40:09Z 2020-07-06T09:40:09Z 2020-06-23 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2071-1050 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8303 en https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/12/5107 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | cooperatives sustainability Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) leadership style transformational leadership transactional leadership gender differences Martinez León, Inocencia María Olmedo Cifuentes, Isabel Martínez Victoria, María Del Carmen Arcas Lario, Narciso Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives |
| title | Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives |
| title_full | Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives |
| title_fullStr | Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives |
| title_short | Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives |
| title_sort | leadership style and gender: a study of spanish cooperatives |
| topic | cooperatives sustainability Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) leadership style transformational leadership transactional leadership gender differences |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8303 |
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