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Employees empowerment and gender differences

Organized by Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship UniMAP in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 5th - 6th December 2008 at Putra Palace Hotel, Perlis.

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Main Author: Tabassum, Sultana, Dr.
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2009
Subjects:
Employees > Attitudes
Personnel management
Labor productivity
Employee empowerment
Interpersonal relations
Employees
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/5682
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spelling my.unimap-56822009-05-09T05:03:42Z Employees empowerment and gender differences Tabassum, Sultana, Dr. Employees -- Attitudes Personnel management Labor productivity Employee empowerment Interpersonal relations Employees Organized by Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship UniMAP in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 5th - 6th December 2008 at Putra Palace Hotel, Perlis. The principle purpose of the study was to determined the differences between the male and the female managers in empowering their all female/male and male and female subordinates. The population of the study consisted of all the managers and their sub-ordinates in Government, Semi Government, and Non-Government organizations located in Karachi and Hyderabad regions. A stratified sample of 150 male and female and all female/male subordinates representing five organizations, three from Karachi and two from Hyderabad was taken. The research study adopted was that of survey. A custom made Questionnaire consisted of 30 items was developed. The items of Questionnaire were drawn from the relevant literature to ensure the content validity of the Questionnaire. The reliability of the Questionnaire was ensured through the test-retest method which yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.413. Two major hypotheses and 30 item wise hypotheses were framed. The two major hypotheses were tested through z test. One of these hypotheses was rejected and it was concluded that the women managers were more empowering than their male counterparts in respect of male and female sub-ordinates. However, the other hypothesis was upheld and no difference was found between the male and female managers in empowering their all female / male sub-ordinates. Finally, the study made several recommendations and suggested needed research. 2009-05-09T05:03:42Z 2009-05-09T05:03:42Z 2008-12-05 Working Paper p.414-426 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5682 en International Conference on the Roles of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Eengineering 2008 (ICOHSE08) Universiti Malaysia Perlis
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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language English
topic Employees -- Attitudes
Personnel management
Labor productivity
Employee empowerment
Interpersonal relations
Employees
spellingShingle Employees -- Attitudes
Personnel management
Labor productivity
Employee empowerment
Interpersonal relations
Employees
Tabassum, Sultana, Dr.
Employees empowerment and gender differences
description Organized by Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship UniMAP in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 5th - 6th December 2008 at Putra Palace Hotel, Perlis.
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author Tabassum, Sultana, Dr.
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title Employees empowerment and gender differences
title_short Employees empowerment and gender differences
title_full Employees empowerment and gender differences
title_fullStr Employees empowerment and gender differences
title_full_unstemmed Employees empowerment and gender differences
title_sort employees empowerment and gender differences
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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