Abstract:
The study examined the role of gender diversity in leadership on organizational
effectiveness using NSSF in Mwanza, Tanzania as a case of study. In order to achieve this
the study looked for the most preferred gender in leadership for effectiveness in this
organization. Also, the study looked on the importance of gender diversity in leadership
and some factors that challenges equal gender inclusion for effectiveness in organizational
leadership.. Apart from the traditional way of understanding, leadership in this dissertation
leadership has been treated among others as the process that involved the interaction of
people in an organization so as to reach their joint goals. Subsequently, the concept of
organizational effectiveness has been connected to issues such as the capability of an
organization to access and utilize resources and accordingly accomplish its objectives.
The dissertation was directed by the Resource Based Theory that underpins on the top
management of an organization to be responsible for collecting valuable resources so as
to benefit the organization. While many studies within and without the country have been
reviewed all these studies did not explain what defects may crop up as outcomes of
missing gender diversity in organizations. The study preferred the case study design with
a mixed approach. All the workers at the NSSF Regional Headquarter at Mwanza were
taken as the population as well as the sample size due to purposively being small. Both
questionnaires and in-depth interviews were used to collect the data relevant in this study.
Data analysis involved the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS, 22) for
quantitative data and thematic analysis for qualitative data. Cronbach Alpha Correlation
was used for checking the reliability while content validity analysis was done for validity
verification. The ethical consideration tackled issues of confidentiality, informed consent,
integrity, and conflict of interest.
