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Gender Diversity in leadership and organizational performance has been topic of immense interest for management research scholars and increasingly attracted the attention of academics and regulatory institutions in recent years. Gender diversity refers to the degree of heterogeneity in a gender that characterizes a work team. Effective leadership is often viewed as the foundation for organization- al performance and growth. This study focuses on women leaders and their contribution towards organization performance. Open Communication, Result Focused, Talent Development, Employees’ Empowerment & Equity and Fairness are taken as parameters for organizational performance. The target population limited to the leaders who are holding the designation of Senior Manager, Senior Executive, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Director and their immediate subordinates. The public organizations selected under the study are mainly listed on BSE and NSE stock exchange. 480 questionnaires were fully completed and suitable for the analysis with a 43.63 percent overall response rate. A well-structured, close-ended survey instrument was used as the primary data collection tool to get data. The questionnaire started with questions to collect data on the respondent’s personal, demographical information and basic information about the organization. The survey instrument adopted organization performance scale. It measured organizational performance as the effectiveness of the leader. This scale is adopted from part of a study by Singh & Bhandarker (2011) organizational performance scale and further adapted according to this study. Descriptive Statistics such as mean, standard error was also used for analysis. T- test Statistics was also used to assess the difference in the organizational performance of female leaders in compare to male leaders.” Chi-Square for measurement of model for organizational performance is applied. SEM (structural equation modeling) using SPSS AMOS-24 was conducted based on this study’s requirement. It is determined that in connection with the gender of the leader, there is a significant difference in the respective Organizational performance of the leaders. This study suggested that various types of organizational performance such as open communication, result-focused, talent development, employees’ empowerment and equity & fairness are also better in female leaders as compare to male leaders. Finally, the study provides the important suggestion of involving the women leaders in essential decisions for better corporate governance and organizational performance.
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