When do women receive managerial support? The effects of gender congruence and the manager-employee relationship

This article examines the impact of manager-employee gender similarity on supportive leadership behaviours by public managers. Following prior research, we hypothesize that women with female managers are likely to report more support than male and this relationship will be moderated quality relationship. Analysing multi-source survey data collected from a state agency, find for gender-similarity effect. We also positive between behaviour. However, do not any hypothesized moderation effect quality.