Gender Difference in the Perceptions of ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether (1) male and female engineering staff in two transport companies have differences in the perception of influence of the organizational defensive patterns on learning of information and communication technology (ICT); and (2) skilled incompetence, organizational defensive routines and fancy footwork are less correlated with each other for female engineering staff than their male counterparts in two transport companies. Quantitative survey was employed in this study. Totally 200 engineering staff (159 male and 41 female) were selected from two companies. T-test and correlation analysis were used to test the hypotheses. The findings showed that (1) male and female engineering staff in two transport corporations had the different perceptions of influence of skilled incompetence, defensive routines and fancy footwork on learning of ICT; and (2) skilled incompetence, defensive routines and fancy footwork were less positively associated with each other for female engineering staff than their male counterparts in two transport corporations.