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Analysis of the Relationship Between Senior Female Leadership and Enterprise Performance in China
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Abstract
With the continuous development of Chinese society, under the policy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, more and more women have stepped into the workplace and participated in all aspects of senior leadership. Understanding how female leadership attributes affect business success can encourage more female employees to take up leadership roles. This essay intends to investigate the connection between firm performance in China and senior female leadership. Emphasis on Chinese background, this paper is trying to find out the difference between China and abroad and to find out the reason for those differences. According to related articles published at home and abroad. This paper uses keyword search when selecting papers. In addition, two keywords “female leadership” and “corporate performance” were searched. The findings indicate that, after 19 years, the effect of female leadership on business performance is primarily positive. This specific impact on corporate performance is related to the flexible management characteristic of female leadership.
Keywords
female leadership, enterprise performance, characteristics
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-043-1
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-044-8
- Published Date
- 31 October 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/10/20231222
- Copyright
- 31 October 2023
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