Men Are Better Bosses

I agree. Although some male bosses can be like “old women” most male bosses are not subject to different moods, changing minds and being in competition with other women to see who comes out the top dog.

Wow. Women are unpredictable, capricious and catty. With attitudes like that it’s amazing that women get promoted at all.

Is it just me or are men creative, decisive and competative in the contexts?

Props to the article for pointing out that these subjective views are not supported by objective measures.

Men are better indeed, According to me.
3/4 of men know how to manage people, they are also simple, and accept mistakes. women don’t accept their mistakes most of them. few are good managers. but their is some thing natural in their hearts, which my wives said can not change, though we said we train them, she said we cann’t train the heart and blood. ya we should be equal and respect them, But men are better Bosses.
Thanks.

I must agree men are better bosses than women, less argumentive, they can have mood swings but not as much as women and they can also nag but given a choice i would always prefre to work with a male boss

I think both of them are good when they are a very good christians and live by GOD’s principles.

Men are always better managers, because they do manage stress very well and also most of the time they dont let out their hard feeling always (where as women feel very easily which is visible).
Also, Men wont scold a woman that easily and often where as women does whioch inturn leads to interpersonal conflicts, thereby decreasing team co-ordination.

I’ve received more advancement, promotions, and creative projects and opportunities under female bosses than male bosses. Perhaps geographic location, industry, and level of education have an impact. I work in the DC Metropolitan area in a corporate environment surrounded by highly educated woman. Perhaps some of the other women work in other areas and perhaps are not as highly educated. I don’t know.

“It’s all in the perception,” is correct. I’ve worked for many a moody male boss. However, as a manager, my actions have been viewed as “bitchy”, even when it applies to the most basic request. If same information in the same tone with the same words would’ve been delivered by a man, I doubt the immediate response would have been “That b!tch!” Men aren’t better to work for, their brand of moodiness and actions are just better accepted, and are prejudged to be correct.

I agree that it seems that Men make better Bosses then women. The men bosses that I worked under were understand and professional. I’ve were under three female bosses which were racist, unprofessional, jealous and one even hit on me. Women bosses seem to be judgemental and unprofessional.

“To be a leader you have to be decisive and take charge. That fits fine for men, but when women do it they get labeled.”I agree, but women who keep their eyes on the ball prevail. Men will be led by ideas that give results, not feminine overtures that seek empathy, like a few lady bosses do. My lady boss is open, objective and is just fine.Only the busy bodies assign a sexual tag to leadership.We cannot do anything about that. Productivity, now that is another kettle of fish!

Ooh!,i do disagree,Some male Bosses are hell,they are too demanding sexually and are`nt honest-they misuse alot of Company money in the name of being Bosses but women are honest.if he likes you then you could probably have “given in”.Infact even when a lady is a non perfomer he will always praise her and this is dangerous to the company in terms of performance.Therefore i believe women can do wonders for Company development…Try it out and see a difference!

There are plenty of problems with male bosses, for example EGO. But, the issue which makes it difficult to work for a female boss is that they try so hard to become a significant player in the male world of management that they artificially trample all the female qualities that could give them the advantage on male bosses.

Yes, defenetly, I rather a male boss over a female boss. Right now, I am being supervised by a woman, she is just a wanna be. She is just in charge temporary while my real boss is away due to health reasons. Well, the B**** bites my head off everytime she has a chance. She has a bad day at home she takes it out on me. God help us all in the departmentif she becomes the boss.

As a woman manager, I found my assistant manager, a young woman, to be a gossiper, a drama queen, and unable to keep any confidences, including confidential information regarding our employees. She was a disaster and in order to cover her behind, she began a series of calls to the district manager, HR manager, and others with lies about things I was supposedly doing. It was months before I got the whole story and by then all the gossip and lies eroded by credibility. Give me a man anyday!

It does not matter whether it is a man or a woman. Both have their advantages, they just have to use them most efficiently so that it serves the interests of the company. I have always had female bosses and I am very thankful for their patience, professionality and the skills they thaught be. It should not be that much a matter of gender but of capabilities to avoid having awful bosses above, as those that were depicted precendently in such nice portraits…and I believe a woman is as much comptent as a man to fullfil this request!

It seems that some comments are not being objective because of our genders. I am a male and I believe male managers are better than female managers.

Some story to this: I have had in the last ten years about the same amount of male/female managers. I have worked in many industries, from not-for-profit, to education, consumer goods, and banking. Male managers aren’t as concerned as proving themselves in a company where most managers are male, therefore they manage for the sake of accomplishing their goals.

What I have seen; however, is that female managers are most concerned about meeting expectations and achieving goals, however, this comes at a cost to the employees. Most times, the goals accomplished by a female manager are very good in quality, but the way to accomplish this was by pushing the employees to work long, hard and have to deal with the mood changes, jealousies, insecurities, competitiveness, etc.

Male bosses are “easier” to work as they do not need to deal with insecurities and work to get things accomplished. Work produced may not always be an A-plus job, but things get accomplished and the employees are more productive because of the atmosphere. Since male bosses do not “need to prove themselves” under the management of males I have had more chances to experiment and see what results I get (although I did have a good amount of flexibility from a female manager, however she did have the attitudes shared of a woman, and once it came for my time to leave the company, I did not receive much support or empathy from someone I worked for and supported for two years).

Again, it is all perception, and it always depends on the particular case. I guess I have had a good share of managers and it was easier for me to work with male managers, maybe it was because they were not fearing I was out to take their jobs.

Unfortunatly,I agree.I don’t know why women who get into supervisory positions think they have to be nasty or can talk to people any way they see fit.Is this the type of women who rise to the top?or did they just hide it better?What ever the reason the men I worked for were much more reasonable.

female bose sre not good to work with they are full of jelousy, suspicions. they are selective/choosy

In my experience, female bosses tend to be territorial, easily threatened (particularly by other women), lacking in self-confidence, can be very incompetent (hence exemplifying the Peter Principle), are often poor analytical, conceptual and strategic thinkers, and are “wishy washy” in their approach to complex tasks. Give me a male manager/leader any day – at least they get things done! (From a female.)

My best two bosses: one man, one woman
My worst boss: a man

It’s the individual and their skills…

I am a 28 year old college educated man and ever since I graduated from college six years ago and started working full time I have almost exclusively had female managers/supervisors and I AM sick of it. I am also sick of working in a femal dominated industry (healthcare). I am not sexist, on the contrary I love women but I’m really tired of being the only dude and having to walk on egg shells at work. As a man I find it incrasingly difficut work for a female boss in a prodominately female office and industry. Mainly, I am tired of feeling like I am in a “relationship” with all the women I work with, it’s downright exhusting. Of the 7-8 female managers or supervisors I have had only one stands out as excellent the rest were less then ideal to work for or just plain annoying (including my current manager). Similarly, I have had to endure a series of annoying, nosy, bossy and overly sesitive female serior staff members who have almost exclusively proven themselves to be nothing but a roadblock rather then a mentor. Although I have managed to climb the corporate ladder, I am at a point in my career where I feel as though I only want to work for/with men. I’m jealous of guys who get to work in male dominated industries and I feel as though I deserve to be apart of the “good old boys club.” It is unfortunate that I feel this way but the truth is that men are better, more relaxed managers and that male collegues can become buddies and team members in a way that female coworkers can’t.

Sometimes it might be Men a better bosses because of the experience that they have.Likewise also Women can do thing such as like a Man now days we believe Gender balances tho here we look about competence that we have either Man OR Women.a Man from ST AUGUSTINE UNIVERSTY OF TANZANIA.Believe changes no fear anything Gender

AM hit it right on the head. Female dominated working environments SUCK!!!

I’ve worked for both male and female bosses. My experience is that women tend to try to manipulate people, particularly other women. I prefer the directness and objectivity of men.

I am a female and I work in healthcare, I have had only 2 male managers, and 6 female. Every single female manager I have had made my job more difficult than it needed to be. Constant moodiness, irrational behavior, jealousy, gossping… Among other things and the female managers that didn’t do these things were just too overbearing and annoying. Above all, I just flat out don’t like taking orders from another woman. Never had any problems from a male manager or co-worker and I wish more men were in my field.