The Effectiveness of the Feminine and Masculine Styles of Management in Crisis Situations in an International Transportation Company

Orych Maciej ()
Additional contact information
Orych Maciej: University of Social Sciences, Lodz, Poland

Journal of Intercultural Management, 2024, vol. 16, issue 4, 112-145

Abstract: Objective The aim of this article is to identify the influence of the feminine and masculine styles of management on the effectiveness of the management of a crisis situation in an international transport company. Achieving the above--mentioned objective required a research question: how can female and male leadership styles in an organisation contribute to an effective crisis situation management in an international transport company? Methodology Based on the subject literature, considerations of selected authors concerning: characteristics of a crisis situation management in organisations, female and male leadership styles and the specificity of operation of modern international transport companies are presented. The empirical part presents the results of own qualitative research. The results of the qualitative study allowed us to learn, to some extent, about women’s and men’s organisational behaviour and managerial decisions when managing a crisis situation – from the perspective of their effectiveness. Findings The results of the study indicate that female and male crisis management styles prove to be effective in different types of crisis situations in the logistics industry. Value Added The identification of typical feminine and masculine organisational behaviour or managerial decisions (feminine and masculine management styles) in specific types of crisis situations offers a promising new approach to crisis management in contemporary organisations, including those in the logistics sector. Recommendations Perceiving the effective management of crises in organisations through the typically feminine and masculine aspects of leadership can carry valuable implications for management practice in companies, including logistics companies.

Keywords: crisis situations; feminine style of management; masculine style of management; international transportation companies; effective crisis situation management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L20 L21 L91 M10 M12 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2478/joim-2024-0016 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:joinma:v:16:y:2024:i:4:p:112-145:n:1004

DOI: 10.2478/joim-2024-0016

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Intercultural Management is currently edited by Łukasz Sułkowski

More articles in Journal of Intercultural Management from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().