Thursday, August 11, 2011

I am a male manager of all female employees and find it can be a challenge. Any suggestions?

(Serious responses ONLY) I have been a manager for over 10 years, but in all situations before the gender base has been mixed. I now supervise 12 people in a call center, 11 of which are female. I find that the climate is truly different this time around and there is the sense of a heightened emotional "temperature". Even my own istant manager and manager are women. I'm trying hard not to stereotype the situation (which would be easy to do), as there are plenty of generalizations one could make. I truly like my coworkers and seem to have their respect as well. But there are those moments that make the arrangement awkward. I even had someone use her gender as a weapon once (she made a sole unfounded "accusation" after being reprimanded ). I am a proponent of "equal work for equal pay" and do not look at gender, race, etc as anything other than another employee.

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