The Impact of Gender on Civil Servants’ Resilience in Local Public Administration
The Impact of Gender on Civil Servants’ Resilience in Local Public Administration

Summary/Abstract: Resilience is not a concept that can be used only related to economies. It can also be used about human resources who cross many difficult situations or even shocks during their career. More than that, in both public and private organizations, employees struggle daily with stressors and their resilience should be studied to observe their capacity of surpassing those situations. For the present research, a pilot study has been conducted in order to analyze the resilience of the public servants from the local public administration. The methodology of research consists of an opinion which was carried out using a questionnaire. The questionnaire was applied in 8 City Councils of Romania and it was fulfilled by the execution and senior civil servants. The sample was composed of civil servants because public institutions struggle with particular problems that affect the career of the civil servants (budgetary cuts, economic crises, political instability and understaff). The study approached three concepts: resilience, gender, and leadership trying to establish a connection between them. The main objective of the research was to find out if the civil servants led by female leaders were more resilient like the ones whose’ hierarchic superior was a man. The study began from the hypothesis that the public servants who have a female leader are more resilient to the shocks and stressors they face during their careers

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