COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS IN MANAGERIAL WORK – DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE MANAGERS

Work-related gender issues are linked to the issue of gender equality in the labor market, remuneration, work motivation, satisfaction, performance, compatibility of work and family life, and career development, including creation of equal opportunities for individual development of the personal potential of every individual. This area may also include the gender specifics of performing managerial work, particularly in the context of the presented paper in which attention was focused on gender differences in the occurrence of cognitive distortions in managerial work. Methodology PCD18 enabling specification of four attributes of occurrence of cognitive distortions in thinking and decision-making of managers (negative prophecies, thought-reading, unsubstantiated conclusions, argumentation through emotions) was used. A mathematical and statistical analysis of the acquired data confirmed the existence of statistically significant differences in the responses of male and female managers in evaluation of the selected attributes of occurrence of cognitive distortions. In this sense, there is a clear tendency towards a greater impact of emotions on the occurrence of cognitive distortions among women.