Civil servants’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles: the role of gender in public sector organizations

Don S. Lee and Soonae Park

Public Management Review, 2021, vol. 23, issue 8, 1160-1183

Abstract: This article examines public employees’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles by focusing on the role of gender in organizational management. Employing a survey experiment with over 800 national civil servants in Korea, we find that female employees have more positive perceptions of transformational leadership than male employees; however, female and male employees’ perceptions of transactional leadership are not significantly different. Moreover, employee gender, when investigated along with gender representation in organizations, produces more nuanced results. Our findings suggest a clear gender gap in perceptions of leadership styles among public employees, which is further unpacked with variations in gender representation.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1730941

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