Comparison of female versus male leadership characteristics in a naval health clinic.

摘要

Thirty leaders, their supervisors, and workers/observers for a total of 90 personnel were surveyed to determine if male or female leaders exhibited more leadership in the form of five different leadership characteristics as measured by the LPI. Those five characteristics were inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act, encouraging the heart, modeling the way, and challenging the process. Survey results were statistically inconclusive at the small clinic level, but did show slight trends towards higher levels of female leadership in four of the five characteristics. The only category with a higher x-bar for males was enabling others to act, whereas the highest difference of female leadership characteristics was enabling the heart. Although heart was a characteristic associated with females, more surprising was the higher score for women on challenging the process and modeling the way.