How Can Women Take Advantage of the High-Tech Era to be Perceived as Effective Leaders? Being Tech-Savvy Helps

IF 5 3区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT
Mahak Nagpal, Jieqiong Cao, Ke Michael Mai, David de Cremer
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Given the increasing use of intelligent technologies and the resulting requirement for leaders to be tech-savvy, an important question that emerges is whether perceptions of leadership effectiveness are changing too? Drawing from gender role theory and expectation violation theory, we propose and test a model of whether and how females can benefit from being tech-savvy. To explore whether women may stand to gain from the changing nature of the workforce or not, we ran a series of studies. Our data sources included a cross-sectional time-lagged field study and experimental studies with students and online adults. We found that a definitive skill of the current technological era, tech-savviness, changes perceptions and evaluations of female leaders in a much more positive way than it does for male leaders, as such allowing female leaders to be more likely to be perceived as effective leaders. The reason for the effect that tech-savvy women were more likely to be perceived as effective leaders was driven by the fact that tech-savvy women are seen as more competent and hence, attributed more social status. Our research goes beyond merely focusing on the negative effects of gender stereotypes by providing an actionable solution—that comes from promoting tech knowledge and savviness—for women to counter gender stereotypes that undermine them from being viewed as effective leaders.
女性如何利用高科技时代被视为有效的领导者?精通技术会有所帮助
鉴于越来越多地使用智能技术,以及由此产生的对领导者精通技术的要求,一个重要的问题出现了:人们对领导力有效性的看法是否也在发生变化?根据性别角色理论和期望违背理论,我们提出并测试了一个模型,以确定女性是否以及如何从精通技术中受益。为了探究女性是否能从劳动力性质的变化中获益,我们进行了一系列研究。我们的数据来源包括横断面滞后实地研究和对学生和在线成人的实验研究。我们发现,与男性领导者相比,当今科技时代的一项决定性技能——技术敏锐度,更积极地改变了人们对女性领导者的看法和评价,因此,女性领导者更有可能被视为有效的领导者。精通技术的女性更有可能被视为有效的领导者,其原因是人们认为精通技术的女性更有能力,因此她们的社会地位更高。我们的研究不仅仅关注性别刻板印象的负面影响,还提供了一个可行的解决方案——来自于提高技术知识和智慧——让女性对抗性别刻板印象,这种刻板印象会破坏她们被视为有效的领导者。
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