In order to sustain good performance, employee satisfaction, and overall organizational success, organizations are realizing more and more how important emotional regulation is inside the teams, and the interplay leaders can have. The main research problem to be studied is the relationship between leader characteristics, considering gender, personality traits and leadership style, and its impact on the team’s emotion regulation and performance, based on their perception of those characteristics. It aims to understand if female leaders regulate and express their emotions in a different way from male leaders, based on also on their personalities, and how those differences, which literature seems to suggest that exist, will impact the team’s emotion regulation and performance. For that, individual semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were applied to two teams, one managed by a female leader and the other by a male leader, and to their female and male subordinates. The results find that not only there’s a positive relationship between the personality traits and leadership style and the perception the subordinates have about their leaders, where personality traits play a bigger role then gender itself, but such aspects as age and tenure can also play a role in the dynamics of those relationships, and subsequentially, in the subordinates feel of support, motivation and their performance.

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Leadership,Teamwork,Emotion Regulation,Gender

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