Male bosses preferred by all staff
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my paper Friday, Sep 02, 2011 By Victoria Barker
MALE bosses are preferred by both female and male employees in the private sector, findings from a study revealed yesterday.
Just over half of the female employees surveyed said they would rather have a manager of the opposite sex, compared to just one in five male workers.
Just over half of the women polled and nearly six in 10 men also prefer working with male colleagues.
The study by global recruitment firm Randstad took place over several weeks from July to last month, and involved 405 Singapore-based employees - split evenly between men and women aged 18 to 65 - who completed an online questionnaire.
Almost seven in 10 employees polled currently report to a male superior.
Ms Karin Clarke, regional director for Randstad's Singapore and Malaysia offices, said: "Women are very good at building strong teams, empowering staff... Men tend to compete to win.
"(But) the most important factor is that employees respect the authority of their leader, are motivated, inspired and feel valued."
Accounts manager Ronald Naidu, 27, who works for a communications company and reports to a male boss, agreed.
"To me, as long as the boss is fair and reasonable, gender doesn't matter," he said.
However, Ms Michelle Fong agreed with the report's findings. The 29-year-old sales executive for a home-grown engineering company said: "I've had female bosses in the past and found that they tend to be more moody and emotional.
"Guys are usually more laid-back...as long as you do your job well."
Despite the preference for male colleagues and bosses, some respondents - nearly three in 10 - said they believe the performance of their organisation would improve if there were more women in higher management.
Ms Clarke attributed this finding to the fact that women are often perceived as being more collaborative and inclusive in their leadership.
"In turn, this can drive better business performance, with employees becoming more engaged and motivated as their contributions are recognised," she added.
Almost half of all employees also felt that their companies perform best when there is an equal ratio of men to women on the team.
Mr David Ang, executive director of the Singapore Human Resources Institute, said that the results could be attributed to the fact that there are simply more men in the Singapore workforce, but added that each gender brings different things to the table.
"Men may be more rational and straight to the point, while women may be more nurturing (as bosses)... Each have different strengths," he said.
He added that gender should not matter to employers when recruiting staff.
"The manager should, most importantly, have the skills, knowledge and experience to do his or her job," he said.
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I have met good and caring women bosses but they are very few.
To be fair, there are nasty bosses from both gender. Generally the ratio of nasty woman bosses outnumber the nasty male bosses (this is base on my encounters and others around me).
To be safe, my choice is always working for male bosses unless I know the woman is a nice boss I don't mind working for her.
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Originally posted by jmstar~:
I have met good and caring women bosses but they are very few.
To be fair, there are nasty bosses from both gender. Generally the ratio of nasty woman bosses outnumber the nasty male bosses (this is base on my encounters and others around me).
To be safe, my choice is always working for male bosses unless I know the woman is a nice boss I don't mind working for her.
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Originally posted by Bio-Hawk:
+1. Woking for a female is a RPITA.What's RPITA?
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Originally posted by jmstar~:
What's RPITA?
Royal Pain In The Ass -
Whoever generate the atmosphere of pleasantness, welfare, generosity, magnanimity and empathy for their staff and corporation. It is not easy to locate have all this qualities.
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thats why the system wants us to shower more gentleness and protection for women to awaken their bitchy and slutty nature..
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so that they have chances to equalise with men's status...
in consequent, their success is given more than earned
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Women cannot work together. They act like they can, in their minds, they just want to strangle one another to death.
As for bosses, you would rather have a bitchy male boss over a female one. Men run a company with their brains, women let their hearts run the company, which is why they usually fail.
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the females need PAP more than men ...it is surprising they are still complaining about the system who feeds and protect them more than us...
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Bitchy females are not limited to corporations only. They are everywhere, can be found in the social circle, families, forums, religious venues, schools and so on.
They can be married or single. Some single bitches get frustrated with no boyfriends dating them or they tried to chase men but are rejected. Hence vent frustrations on some innocent souls. Heaven is watching, watch your ways! Retribution is not merely words but REAL!
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now the tissue phenomenon at eating places are attributed to....er hem...who else?
women also boss around.... reserving seats at eating places...despite bitching at work places...lol
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Originally posted by Fcukpap:
now the tissue phenomenon at eating places are attributed to....er hem...who else?
women also boss around.... reserving seats at eating places...despite bitching at work places...lol
If you observe most bitches have no EQ.
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Men generally work with objective mind, more magnanimous, ready to forgive mistakes and easy to please.