Good relationships are based on trust, commitment and engagement, and a good manager’s essential role is to build these relationships for the benefit of the organisation, so that the tasks that are set are completed with enthusiasm, effectively, on time and with the energy to do more.
In my life experience it depends on the level of management and the role of the manager. It would be nice to believe that gender does not matter, but I have always found that it does.
The main problem I have found with women as managers is that they are either to soft or they are too uncompromising and build up a permanent grudge bank. Men will always compromise, which is needed for managers to negotiate properly.
On the plus side women take a lot less major risks which can be a good thing in some positions. Women are also highly beneficial in management to keep your eye on the different requirement of females customers and female staff. Women typically have much better language skills, which can be very important.
No smaller employer can seriously overlook the possibility of pregnancy in younger women. The U.K. law says you should ignore, but that is plain idiotic. Some companies can manage such things well, but if you cannot legally discus the issue with the potential employee it makes things extremely difficult for the employer to make any adjustments. The result of such overbearing laws forces employers to act in a much more discriminatory fashion against women, than they would do otherwise.
What is usually best is to have a mix of men and women in your management. That not only gives you the best of both but they can work together to give you something even better than that.
Gender is irrelevant - attitude, style and skill level are the important factors. Just to add a generalisation, I have noticed that some men initially resist the idea of working for a woman but they quickly accept that if she is reasonably competent; women working for women has however often led to resentment and conflict and has been more difficult to resolve. Neither gender seems to have a problem with the idea of working for a man but that is probably just a result of prejudice or familiar stereotypes. Good male or female managers soon overcome such preconceived ideas.
Depends upon them, and situation also, no one can make right decision that who makes a better manager
Either sex should have equal opportunity to excel as a manager.
Both are terrible managers.
Its doesn't depent on male or female but on skills he/she have for a manager post.
I feel it's who can handle the job not the gender. They have to be well knowledgable and flexible. They are dealing with the boss and employees.
Depends on the PERSON, not the gender ! One of my best "bosses" in Naval Aviation was a woman !
Depends on a lot more information about the individuals.
