Open AccessManaging Impressions Of Responsibility For Success Or Failure: Manager-Sex and Observer-Sex Effects
Author(s) -
Wayne H. Decker,
Sue Greenfeld
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied business research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2157-8834
pISSN - 0892-7626
DOI - 10.19030/jabr.v5i1.6380
Subject(s) - creditor , blame , psychology , social psychology , control (management) , value (mathematics) , face (sociological concept) , business , actuarial science , debt , finance , management , economics , sociology , social science , machine learning , computer science
College students responses to fictitious managers statements concerning responsibility for performance were investigated. Male managers were seen as having greater control than females over productivity. While it was generally best to credit others for success and blame oneself for failure, males (but not females) gave subordinate-crediting managers more favorable ratings than superior-creditors. Males seemed to perceive superior-creditors as self-serving, while females were more apt to take statements at face value.