In order to understand the dynamics of communication management, it
             is first imperative to look at one of the issues that prevail in the
             workplace environment: gender diversity in terms of communication. Looking
             at the communication styles of females and males is important because in
             this issue lies the solution in ascertaining whether communication and
             interaction are indeed gender-based or not.
             Conversational styles adopted by males and females provide a clue in
             determining the relational systems existing between males and females in
             the workplace. For many years, research and studies on communication in
             the workplace persisted that there is a dichotomy, or difference, between
             male and female communication styles.
             The male-female dichotomy in communication is determined through
             conversational styles used by people in the workplace. Men are generally
             perceived as direct, confrontational, subjective and dominant, and
             assertive in conversing with people. Women, on the other hand, are the
             exact opposites of men, utilizing indirect, consensual, objective and
             cooperative, and non-confident and -authoritative conversational styles.
             Assumptions illustrating these male-female dichotomy in communication
             and interaction dynamics in the business setting are shown in the study of
             Zielinski (1998) on the oral communication skills of males and females
             during business public presentations. In the study, Zielinski discussed
             how male presenters are characteristically perceived as confident and
             better than women presenters in delivering oral presentations. The
             scenario of orally presenting in front of a large group of business people
             is chosen how assumptions about how male and female conversational styles
             are played out in front of a large audience. The author goes on to
             describe the emerging characteristic of male and female conversational
             style during public presen...