Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

general similarities,praise and recognition for cooperation and collaboration—protects the leader’s interest. Peopleare not so influenced by receiving advice from the people they like but by the knowledge thatthis person likes them42. The leader’s job, however, is not to invent or manufacture similarities orcooperative mutual goals, it’s to identify where the similarities naturally exist in all relationships.Everyone benefits. We relax at work when we are liked.Best practice during next research steps would be conducted to replicate the gender-compositionof the group component in the team finding (see above section C) and modify the questions andadditional research manipulations to uncover the meaning of gender in terms of emotionalresponses to