The past several decades have brought enormous changes that have in turn shaped the development of the modern business environment. The present data clearly indicates that management in general has become much more human-oriented, even in the face of some incredible advancement in technology. As a result, scholars and professionals alike have recognized the need for people with better soft skills that include communicating, networking, empowering, delegating, and counselling among others. Such skills are absolutely imperative for managers in organizations that concentrate primarily on the human factor. In fact, in many areas of management, and especially in HRM, managers that are able to successfully seek out, recruit, train, and manage employees are the ones in highest demand. Recently, many authors have suggested that women do possess those skills and therefore tend to perform better than men in the age of human-oriented management. Scholars have identified and emphasized many of the advantages that women display in managing the workforce in order to support the argument that more females should claim high managerial positions. According to Peter York, a well-known academic in the area of human-oriented management, managing has to become a lot more female in the future. Therefore, companies should concentrate resources on finding the most qualified female managers and putting them in key leadership roles. These women would lead their subordinates using a different style that relies more on sharing of responsibility and cooperation than on pure authority.
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