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To organize diversity issues from the 1990s a growing concern , due to cultural differences , the environment and other exogenous variables influencing factors are difficult to define and grasp the theoretical circles organizational diversity and performance did not reach the same conclusion . The executive team is the company's top leadership , strategic decision -makers , and plays an important role in the performance and development of the company , its theoretical research began in the 1980s . The diversity of the senior management team has been the focus of the study about diversity , including diversity of team age diversity , gender diversity , tenure diversity , education (including education type and level of education ) , occupational background diversity of cognitive diversity , such diversity is also a member of the executive team structure characteristics . The general conclusion that diversity and performance are related , but a growing number of empirical studies found that the relationship between structure and performance by some intermediate variables . Therefore , the study of diversity in the structure and performance of the executive team also did not reach a unanimous conclusion. Basically no research on gender structural features and performance , therefore , this paper studies the Chinese listed companies executive team gender characteristics and company performance . Gender characteristics of listed companies executive team statistics is the number of women , the number of men , the sex ratio . Corporate performance to select a full range of performance indicators : financial efficiency indicators , assets operating condition , solvency conditions , the ability to grow condition , cash flow position and from 1-3 factors were selected as the analysis of the five indicators . The study found : Sex structural features of the executive team plays a direct or indirect impact on company performance indicators , performance is also affected by some other mediating variables such as the impact of the size of the company , the impact of gender on various indicators are strong or weak .
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