Abstract
The study, designed to find out the gender outcome, gender roles, and labeling of labels in the
department's head examination, was conducted using 194 study participants recruited from lecturers at Dire Dawa
University in Ethiopia 116 women and 78 were males aged 29.23. The following five labels are used: Department
head in general, efficient male Department head, efficient female Department head, inefficient male Department
head, and inefficient female Department head) were responded to by the research participants. Seven different
hypotheses were tested using ANOVA. Findings revealed that gender role orientation had a significant effect on the
evaluation of the Department head. Furthermore, there were no significant effects of gender, and attachment of
labels on the evaluation of Department head and no interaction effects of gender and gender role orientation, gender
and attachment of labels and gender, gender role orientation, and attachment of labels on the evaluation of
Department head.