Gender perception on leadership style: Case of Albania

• Date: 01 June 2020

Vol. 4 No. 2

June, 2020

European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

ISSN 2519-1284

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Gender perception on leadership style: Case of Albania

Irma Gjana

EpokaUniversityTiranaAlbania

Abstract

Leadership leadership style and gender  leadership relation topics have aracted the

aention of scholars throughout human history This research paper investigates the

perceptiondierencesofleadershipstylebetweengendersThetestingofourhypothesisis

donethroughthegatheringofdatausingleadershipstylequestionnaireNorthouse

ThesurveywasdistributedtostamembersoftwobiggestprivatehospitalsinAlbania

Parametric and nonparametric tests were conducted Despite the dierence between the

institutionswheretheresearchisconductedtheresultsindicatethatthereexistsadierence

in perception of leadership style between genders. The results of this research contribute to

the understanding of leadership style perception through genders, helping practitioners to

comprehenddierencesandtakeactionaccordingly

Keywords: LeadershipstylegenderprivatehospitalsAlbania

Introduction

WiththerapidchangestakingplaceinhumanlifealmostnothingisthesameDierent

impacting factors, such as technological and sciencedevelopment, globalization, free

movement of people, climate change, etc., are some important shaping mile stones

of our life. The time factor is fundamental in the understanding of the evolution of

termsandtheoriesofleaderandleadershipDaYulkHickman

andNorthouseAlthoughthetremendouschangestheonlythingthatremains

stableisthethirsttobeerunderstandtheinternalandexternalforcesthatimpact

these terms. Taking into consideration that leadership is very important for the

eectivefunctioningofallmanagementprocessesLazaroiuPfajfaretal

the understanding in detail of leadership together with all the aecting factors is

crucial. There is a lot of research work on leadership and leadership style, but fewer

arethoseexplaininggenderperceptiondierencesonleadershipstyle

Theobjectiveofthispaperistoempiricallyexaminetheleadershipstyleinthetwo

biggestprivatehospitalsinAlbaniaAerconcludingwiththeperceivedleadership

style measured by leadership style questionnaire Northouse  we seek to

identifyifthereisadierencebetweengendersintheperceivedstyleofleadership

Ourresultsarebasedondatacollectedfromthemedicalandnonmedicalstaof

the American Hospital and International Hospital Hygeia, in Albania. Health and

healthcaresectorareofnodoubtveryimportantissuesineverycountryseconomic

andpoliticaleldTheincreasingofthelifespanandthedecreasingofbirthrates

arepushingthegovernmentstoallocatesignicantportionofcountrysGDPtothe

healthcare sectorA circular relationship exists between a strong economy and a

strong healthcare system. Investing on the healthcare is a direct investment on the