Personality Characteristics Of Women Managers At Different Levels

Abstract

Active penetration of women in management in various fields of activity and the emergence of a new social category of "business women" has determined the relevance of the study of "female" management features. Despite the fact that management activities, as a specific area of professional activity, make special demands on its subject depending on the level of management, there are practically no psychological studies that examine the personality characteristics of women managers at different levels of the management hierarchy today. The purpose of the study was to elucidate the peculiarities of the structural organization of the personality of lower, middle and top levels women managers. Methods of research: theoretical analysis of the problem, psychodiagnostic method of collecting empirical material, correlation and divergent analyses. A comparative study of women managers’ personality traits structure, as well as the structure-forming indicators, revealed a number of differences between the meanings and nature of the interrelationships of the basic personal characteristics of women managers in the lower, middle and top levels of management. It was found that with the progress up the career ladder, there are peculiarities in the character of the interrelations of the indicators in the individual substructures of the diagnosed personality traits; in addition, there are significant differences in the general structures formed by the personal indicators of the sampled samples of the subjects.