Female Bosses are Just Headaches!

Gen­er­ally, most of us do not like to work under female bosses.  Why?  We find that they are over-sensitive to details that in actual fact the details do not con­tribute real value.  Male bosses on the other hand that do not focus on details, they just want to out­come of the task, over­see the emo­tional aspects of the employ­ees where employ­ees feel the drift away from their bosses.  What are the other dif­fer­ences that male and female bosses have?

Male bosses tend to look at the longer out­come, the female bosses tend to look at the shorter out­come – Do you agree with this?  Male bosses tend to look at the vision and devise all means of get­ting there.  Gen­er­ally, they do not spend time focus­ing on devis­ing the process of get­ting there (although they do), their objec­tive is not to think about processes.  Female bosses will gen­er­ally look at how to get there instead and devise the every step required.  They will tell their employee what exactly to do (some­thing like spoon feed­ing).  This can be counter pro­duc­tive as the female boss maybe spend­ing time irrel­e­vant to over­all goal.  Fur­ther­more, the employee’s lack of auton­omy only result in lower morale due to restricted proposals

They good thing about being care­ful with every process in reach­ing the goal is that all things are cov­ered nicely.  That is what the female bosses tend to be good at.  Female bosses tend to be more metic­u­lous in details.  They can check on the miss­ing gaps that are nec­es­sary for the over­all out­come.  How­ever, exces­sive detail­ing of the out­come can cre­ate unnec­es­sary over­head to the employee.  Over­head is also cre­ated for the female bosses them­selves when they focus too much on the details.  They are blinded by the details that they do not see the over­all goal any­more.  What are the mis­takes they can make?  They focus too much on gram­mat­i­cal mis­takes of the reports, the amount of pur­chases to make on small insignif­i­cant items (e.g. sta­tion­ary, office equipments).

Lastly, male bosses tend to empower employ­ees, whereas the female bosses tend to over­see and watch over every­thing lit­tle activ­i­ties in deliv­er­ing out­come. The good thing about empow­er­ment is that employ­ees can do what­ever they can do deliver results.  They are not bounded by rules and should work within guide­lines.  The prob­lem is some­times, when the male bosses tend to focus on the out­come and empow­ers every­one, he maybe slow­ing drift­ing away from this team and not know­ing what they are actu­ally doing on the ground.  This can affect morale issue!  Female bosses on the other hand, focus on the every lit­tle activ­ity, they hand-held you in your tasks, telling you spec­i­fied instruc­tions to per­form.  That is good for begin­ner staff but this is rob­bing free­dom from the employee.  With­out free­dom and auton­omy, the employee are restricted in their cre­ative and in the end morale will be affected as they pon­der the real pur­pose of work they are doing…

Now hav­ing point­ing out these, it seemed that work­ing under a female boss is a dread.  We guess is every employee’s pref­er­ence of who he love to work under.  Do you agree with us?  Not nec­es­sar­ily all are work­ing in this man­ner.  There will be excep­tions and we hope you are one of those lucky ones!

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