NOW a days it is a challenge to Manage women bosses.
Women by nature tend to have a comparatively understandable and pleasing approach of management as compared to male bosses. Women have a gradual and progressive approach towards the problems and diversity, they have tremendous comprehensive and verbal aptitude skills; which make them more communicative, they are soft matured and are emotionally attached to people; resulting in good relationship management and team building capabilities. Moreover, women are proved to have more intelligence than men do.
Take the example of Indra Nooyi, the corporate jewel, who
became the highest-paid chief executive at Pepsi Co, She
motivates her staff with human touch like helping her
employees in all possible ways and didn’t mind guiding them
from boardroom to front office. She always spent time in
writing thank you letters to spouses and parents of all her
employees. She always considered employees as her extended family and maintained an open- door policy.
In spite of having many positive characters like discipline,
straight forwardness, adorable nature that bends and blends
people with soft communication as compared to men,
statistical analysis say that it is tough to work with women
bosses as compared to men. It comes to our surprise to hear
from even women employees stating that it is easy to work
with he boss than a she boss.
But, why is this happening? The reasons may be numerous
such as; Woman may some times feel overburdened with
responsibilities of the family and work place, and this creates
a lot of work-life imbalance. This makes them lose control
over their emotions and they get more intolerant and
impulsive on very minute things, and see every thing under a
magnifier, resulting in a hard to predict unconventional
behavior, making work place a hell for their subordinates. One
more, thing is the count of women bosses is always very little
as compared to men. This makes it more difficult for them
overcome the domination of men to break the glass ceiling,
always making their position insecure, and this results in their
tough and coerce behavior. One more things would be, they
might have worked up to this position striving through many
obstacles, and they wanted their subordinates to experience
the same difficulty.
What ever may be the reason for your bosses
unconventional behavior? You cannot always keep on
changing your boss, whether it is he or she. So, better know
how to deal or manage your boss and march ahead in your
workplace without any friction. It is just a matter of your
perception to know what type of person your boss is, how
she likes the things to be done and follow the same pattern.
This would not only ease up your work but also eases up your
she-boss from her tough behavior. Don’t get yourself sand-
witched with pressure; find a way out following certain
formula to please your boss. Here are few tips to encounter
your aggressive woman boss.
Learn well about your boss and make clear documentation
Be Proactive
Be a good listener and follower
Be Realistic
Be honest and have positive approach
Keep calm and move ahead
It is our way of approach, which breaks or makes the
relationships. If your boss is too tough on you and yells at
you, make it a point not to yell back. Instead stay calm and
cool, have control over your emotions, and never ever have a
slip tongue. This makes you strong as a person. Always try to
be growth centered rather than concentrating and getting
annoyed on unnecessary issues. It is necessary to
demarcate your radius of control, and be sure not to go
beyond this.
After trying all the above things and yet you feel it
inconvenient with your she boss and if you find things getting
even worse; take a smart move out of the company, before
getting fired. Many job opportunities are waiting for you
outside. Good luck for the next job, you get an easy going
she boss.
