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Women in the Leadership Position and Their Relevant Competencies: Results of Exploratory Quantitaive Research Study

MAZÁNEK, L. SVOBODOVÁ, K. SOUČKOVÁ, M. JANKOVÁ, Z. MEGOVÁ, S.

Original Title

Women in the Leadership Position and Their Relevant Competencies: Results of Exploratory Quantitaive Research Study

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

The aim of the presented study is to explore the relevant leadership competencies of women in a managerial position in the Czech companies etabled in South Moravian region. The purpose of this paper is to identify personal features, that are more important for those female executives who have reached a leadership positions. There had been conducted quantitative exploratory research among 28 women in the leading position. The respondents were evaluated the im-portance and frequency of use of the leadership competencies in their position. This led us to calculation of the overall significance index for each competency. The most relevant competen-cies of the women in leading position in the South Moravian region were (in order) ability to ne-gotiate and communication skills (s=20,86), ability to make decision (s=19,39), ethical behaviour (s=19,37), ability to organize work of subordinates (s=18,93) and professional knowledge of the field (s=18,32). In respect to findings the most important competencies for women in the leading position were identified and could be used as a background for the creation and development of competency model. The paper is based on the research of managerial competencies. Concretely on the specifics of the women in the leading positions

Keywords

Women in Management, Leadership, Competencies

Authors

MAZÁNEK, L.; SVOBODOVÁ, K.; SOUČKOVÁ, M.; JANKOVÁ, Z.; MEGOVÁ, S.

Released

7. 7. 2018

Publisher

Library of the Congres of the United States of America

Location

Washington, D.C. USA

ISBN

2326-3636

Periodical

Journal of Strategic and International Studies

Year of study

Volume 8

Number

4

State

United States of America

Pages from

48

Pages to

54

Pages count

6

BibTex

@article{BUT148667,
  author="Lukáš {Mazánek} and Karolína {Vraniaková} and Markéta {Součková} and Zuzana {Janková} and Simona {Megová}",
  title="Women in the Leadership Position and Their Relevant Competencies: Results of Exploratory Quantitaive Research Study",
  journal="Journal of Strategic and International Studies",
  year="2018",
  volume="Volume 8",
  number="4",
  pages="48--54",
  issn="2326-3636"
}