Examining the Role of Gender Diversity in Leadership on Organizational Effectiveness

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.