Research On The Relationship Of Gender Combination Between Leader And Follower And Task Performance-The Moderating Role Of Leader-Member Exchange

With the increase of women's status today, more women are going to the workplace as a common worker or a leader, which changes the only leadership of men and the ratio of gender combination in the workplace. Because of the unique advantages, women are attentive to deal with some trivial and complex jobs, and friendly to communicate with colleagues and fellows well, which makes up for the defect of male character. In recent years, there are hot arguments about the phenomenon of"full-time master husband", such as the husband does housework and the wife goes to work. So it is difficult for us to compare female job performance with male job performance. However, when learning gender combination of the leader and the follower, their job performances make differences. Then this study examined the effect of gender combination between the leader and the follower to the follower's job performance and leader-member exchange(LMX). The members of different industries and enterprises were selected as target sample. We wanted to determine whether different gender combinations between the leader and the follower can lead to different levels of LMX and different levels of LMX can lead to different performance.The survey data about LMX scale and job performance scale was analyzed with the statistical software of SPSS 13.0. On the basis of the previous theory such as gender differences, gender roles, gender combination and the latest leader–member exchange, we hoped to validate some assumption with the strong backing of these data. At the same time we want to help some corporations resolve problems of HRM and increase the management efficiency.Through this study we found the following results: LMX level of different gender combination between leader and follower is significantly different; the quality of LMX can predict the follower's job performance; different dimensions of LMX can predict the follower's job performance significantly; LMX takes a moderating role on the relationship of gender combination between leader and follower and the follower's performance.