<b>Differences</b><b> </b><b>Between</b><b> </b><b>Male</b><b> </b><b>vs.</b><b> </b><b>Female</b><b> </b><b>Leadership </b><b>in Bahrain</b>
Creators: name: Kanian, Yara
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350707
subject: Leadership
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 500403
subject: Islamic studies
classificationCode: 350710
subject: Organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 500199
subject: Applied ethics not elsewhere classified

description: This paper analyses the concept of leadership, focusing on gender, relating to Bahrain as a conservative Islamic country with a poor record of women's leadership. Hoping for a better understanding of the issues related to leadership in terms of gender and the effect of cultural and social factors, the recent progress of women's rights and leadership positions urges the conclusion. Having five years of professional experience as an assistant to both female and male leaders in Bahrain, this study will investigate the nature of gender differences in leadership to be part of the discussion of eradicating these differences in the business context. The study's research objectives revolve around examining the peculiarities of male and female leadership in Bahrain. The survey questions focus on the social or cultural aspects and how they affect an organization and women's leadership, the role and context of appropriate leadership styles that apply to male and female leaders, and if the office environment has a different working culture depending on the leader's gender. Notably, the nature and development of leadership personality depend on society's general sociological attitudes, culture, and achievements while showing certain trends towards the transformational characteristics of women's leadership and transactional features of men's leadership.With regard to gender and leadership in Bahrain, the above analysis shows that the socio- cultural effects have not received adequate consideration in the existing literature. Therefore, this research addresses this gap by providing the reader with a detailed analysis of these influences and increasing knowledge on gender relations in leadership within similar socio-cultural settings. The research methodology of the study is ethnographic qualitative research and drawn ten participants working in corporate firms for in-depth interviews. The data obtained within the framework of the study will be processed using the method of thematic analysis, thereby identifying leadership practices related to gender and culture. Before sourcing data, research subjects' rights and data privacy are respected to guarantee the production of credible and ethical research work.The research implications highlight the need for increasing gender-supportive measures within an organization, better quality of the work-family interface, and a focus on women's leadership. The measures discussed are prompting workshops to reduce gender biases, time-to-time checks to ensure the organization's equality policies and government and education backing for women's leadership workshops. Some of the study's limitations include cultural specificity, self-reporting bias, and access to respondents, which are discussed, and future research directions outlined. Therefore, this research fills the knowledge gap by providing fresh perspectives on gender and leadership in Bahrain's socio-cultural context to create a foundation for future investigations into organizational gender equity in leadership positions.