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JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Do Agentic Female Managers Receive Social Backlash from Workers? An Empirical Study
Author(s): Benjamin Elman, Comila Shahani-Denning, Adrien Kollar, Shai Kopitnikoff
Citation: Benjamin Elman, Comila Shahani-Denning, Adrien Kollar, Shai Kopitnikoff, (2018) "Do Agentic Female Managers Receive Social Backlash from Workers? An Empirical Study," Journal of Organizational Psychology, Vol. 18, Iss. 2, pp. 158-172
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
The present study attempted to test whether a social backlash existed toward agentic female managers
from the perspective of subordinates. Relationships between: manager agency, manager gender, and
reference sex, on worker perceptions, were examined via text scripts. Findings indicated that workers
prefer communal managers regardless of gender, but that communal managers may lack competence.
Agentic women were rated equally to agentic men in terms of how participant workers perceived their
social skills, which contradicted past Backlash literature. Finally, a two-way interaction also highlighted the benefits of competitive managers being introduced to their new subordinates via an informal positive female reference.
