A Review on Leadership Behaviour of Women Executives

Abstract

In the last few centuries various social trends can be identifies as the structure and
functioning which is reflected by the businesses globally. Significantly, there has been raise
in the number of employed women in the business world or in market place. Total number of
women workforce in India is constitute as an essential part. So many women are entering
managerial positions on a worldwide basis. The analyses of India reveals that while the
number of women entering the area of management continues to increase, women remain
under-represented in executive positions. Although the involvement of women entrepreneurs
and leaders has increased in the world in the past few years yet, various factors affect the
performance of women such as the gender wage gap, a lack of safety policies and flexible
work offerings. It is important to attract and retain professional women with good leadership
qualifications and skills in senior positions to maintain a good standard and professionalism.
The leadership behavior of women executives has pulled in the consideration of numerous
specialists nowadays because of its perceived significance. In this review paper, leadership
styles, schemes of women empowerment, the need for leadership, presence and opportunities
given to women are discussed. Toidentify the leadership of women and its current situation in
the Indian economy. It also focuses on the upcoming opportunities available to women
leaders. Even though there have been so many odds in the empowerment of women there are
various leaders that have inspired millions such as IndraNooyi andKiranMazumdar-Shaw.
This paper seeks to contribute on differences in the leadership behavioral styles of women
executives and their effectiveness in achieving organizational goals.