PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN LEADERSHIP IN PRIVATE COMPANIES OF SAUDI ARABIA

Abstract

Globally women are gradually exhibiting their presence as leaders in business enterprise, and organization. However, the perspective of women being leaders is still vague in the Middle East countries. Hence, in this work, the perspective of women leadership in private companies of Saudi Arabia was done. This work was conducted using mix method approach based on quantitative and qualitative method. Three Saudi women leaders were interviewed.  Based on the interviews output, a questionnaire was designed and used for data collection. The samples of this work comprised of 54 employees from the private companies in Saudi Arabia. The findings of this work have demonstrated that 61.1% of the employees agreed that characteristics of women leaders differ from men leaders. Furthermore, result showed that the preference of leaders based on gender still exists among employees. In addition, 51.8 % of the respondents agreed that women leaders clearly explain work targets.  On the other hand, the results have shown that women leaders are compassionate and caring towards their employee’s wellbeing. Thus, it is concluded that the perceptive woman leadership in Saudi Arabia is fairly positive.