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- Title
Management Activity and Program Performance: Gender as Management Capital.
- Authors
Meier, Kenneth J.; O'Toole Jr., Laurence J.; Goerdel, Holly T.
- Abstract
Do men and women manage differently? Do their efforts have different impacts on public program performance? Building from a formal treatment of public management and performance, this study investigates how the interaction of gender and management strategies influences organizational performance. Focusing on several hundred public organizations and their top managers over a three-year period, the analysis maps the gender question onto Mark Moore's distinction among managing upward toward political principals, downward toward organizational agents, and outward toward the networked environment. Findings indicate that women and men as top managers have different performance impacts, and these impacts vary by managerial function as well.
- Subjects
PUBLIC administration; MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE; SEX differences (Biology); SOCIAL services; HUMAN services; SOCIAL networks; INTERPERSONAL relations; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 2006, Vol 66, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00553.x