Analysis of Top Management Team Characteristics on Sustainable Competitive Advantage with Gender Diversity Perspective

The focus of this paper was to assess the influence of TMT characteristics on sustainable competitive advantage and gender diversity of Pure water companies in Ghana. The study targeted TMT of Pure water companies within two regions namely Upper East and West as the population which was purposely stratified and adopted simple random sampling of 125 TMT for the study. The TMT comprised of top managers, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Manager in charge of Human Resource (HR), The study applied multiple linear regression using sustainable competitive advantage as the dependent variable and top management team characteristics and gender diversity as the predictors. The findings indicate a positive. management team characteristics and gender diversity as the predictors. The findings indicate a positive effect of TMT characteristics on gender diversity on employee performance and a strong positive TMT characteristic on sustainable competitive advantage. TMT characteristics include multi-task, handling-problems, confidence, self-esteem, emotional interference, objectives-optimism, education, sex, experience and age. The results show the strong correlation of 0.941 between the predictors TMT characteristics and gender diversity of sustainable competitive advantage: Strategic plan, customer loyalty, return increase were found to be statistically significant in explaining dependent variable.