Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives
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Martinez León, Inocencia María; Olmedo Cifuentes, Isabel; Martínez Victoria, María Del Carmen; Arcas Lario, NarcisoFecha
2020-06-23Resumen
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 me...
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cooperatives
sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
leadership style
transformational leadership
transactional leadership
gender differences