Analyzing The Impact Of Gender And Leadership On Team Dynamics And Organizational Culture: A Comprehensive Study In The Contemporary Business Environment

Research on gender differences in leadership proved that women are more democratic or participative in their leadership and man tend to adopt a more autocratic or directive leadership style. In addition, organization culture and gender and leadership have been theoretically and empirically interlinked. Based on the foregoing, this research is aimed at examining the impact of gender and leadership on team dynamics and organizational culture in a contemporary business environment in a contemporary business environment. Descriptive survey technique using quantitative analysis method was adopted as the research design. The population of study comprises of the employees of selected contemporary businesses in Lagos State and 100 respondents were randomly selected for the study. The instrument for data collection is the carefully structure questionnaire. Findings revealed that gender and leadership do significantly influence team dynamics in a contemporary business environment; and that gender and leadership do significantly influence organizational culture in a contemporary business environment. The study however recommended that contemporary organizations and multinationals should do their best to promote gender factor in leadership considerations as a way of deepening strong, high valued culture and enhance team collaboration.