Women’s Voices in Organizational Life in Romania. Using Interpersonal Skills to Lead
Women’s Voices in Organizational Life in Romania. Using Interpersonal Skills to Lead

Summary/Abstract: Using fifteen in-depth interviews with women in top and middle management positions from Romanian private organizations, we argue about their leadership style and the impression management strategies they use in order to maintain legitimacy and to get social validation. Subjects’ behavior as leaders was closer to transformational leadership style but the need to control – typical for transactional leadership – was shared by the participants. Additionally, we suggest a dramaturgical approach to underline their different stages of adjustment to the organizations they become part of. Results show that women are less willing to share the management responsibilities with a man, as a strategy to avoid delegimization and lack of authority, and they use mixed anchors – personal and professional when leading.

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