Management activity and program performance: Gender as management capital Academic Article

abstract

• Do men and women manage differently? Do their efforts have different impacts on public program performance? Building from a formal treatment of public management and performance, this study investigates how the interaction of gender and management strategies influences organizational performance. Focusing on several hundred public organizations and their top managers over a three-year period, the analysis maps the gender question onto Mark Moore's distinction among managing upward toward political principals, downward toward organizational agents, and outward toward the networked environment. Findings indicate that women and men as top managers have different performance impacts, and these impacts vary by managerial function as well.

authors

• Meier, Kenneth

published proceedings

• PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Meier, K. J., O'Toole, L. J., & Goerdel, H. T.

citation count

• 80

complete list of authors

• Meier, KJ||O'Toole, LJ||Goerdel, HT

publication date

• January 2006

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Public Administration Review  Journal

keywords

• 5 Gender Equality

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00553.x

start page

• 24

end page

• 36

volume

• 66

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00553.x

user-defined tag

• 5 Gender Equality