Gender Conversation in Workplace Context

This study deals with Gender Conversation in
Workplace Context. The subject of this study were 3 male staff
and 3 female staff in Internal Auditor Unit at Universitas Islam
Negeri Sumatera Utara. The object of this study were the
utterances of Male and Female Staff. It specially focused on why
are the conversation used by male and female staff as the ways
they are. This study was conducted in descriptive qualitative
research in order to describe conversational styles among male
and female staff on break time in Universitas Islam Negeri
Sumatera Utara Medan. The theory used in this study are based
on the features of conversational styles proposed by Tannen
(1992), namely status versus support, independence versus
intimacy, advice versus understanding, information versus
feeling, orders versus proposal, conflict versus compromise.
Having analyzed the data, it was found that male and female staff
used different style in conversation because male and female staff
have different opinion about their status during the conversation.
The reason male and female staff have different characteristics
which also lead them having different style in conversation