Leadership, Gender, and Organization (eBook)

Patricia Werhane (Herausgeber)

Mollie Painter-Morland (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2011 | 2011
X, 279 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-90-481-9014-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This text provides perspectives on the way in which gender plays a role in leadership dynamics and ethics within organizations. It seeks to offer new theoretical models for thinking about leadership and organizational influence. Most studies of women's leadership draw on an ethics of care as characteristic of the way women lead, but as such, it tends towards essentialist gender stereotypes and does little to explain the complex systemic variables that influence the functioning of women within organizations. This book moves beyond the canon in exploring alternative paradigms for thinking about leadership and gender in organizations. The authors draw on the literature available in systems thinking, systemic leadership, and gender theory to offer alternative perspectives for thinking about the ways women lead.

The book offers invaluable theoretical perspectives and insightful narratives to graduate students and researchers who are interested in women's leadership, gender and organization. It will be of interest to all women in leadership positions, but specifically to those interested in understanding the systemic nature of leadership and their role within it.

Inhalt

Contents 7
Contributors 9
1 Leadership, Gender, and Organization 11
Part I An Historical Perspective 19
2 Not Your Mother's Women's Movement: Women and Leadership in the Twenty-First Century 20
3 Ways Women Lead 28
Interactive Leadership 30
Paths of Least Resistance 34
Another Kind of Diversity 35
The IWF Survey of Men and Women Leaders 37
Note 38
Part II Transformational Leadership and Systems Thinking 39
4 Women Leaders in a Globalized World 40
Introduction 40
The Globalized New World 41
Prevailing and Worn-Out Mindsets 43
Challenging "Worn Out Mindsets" 45
Some Challenging Paradigms 46
Stakeholder Theory(s) 46
Systems and Systems Thinking 48
An Alternative View of Leadership in a Global Economy 50
Global Leadership in the Twenty-First Century 52
Conclusion 53
Notes 53
References 54
5 Systemic Leadership: Ethical and Effective 56
Introduction 56
Leadership in "Chaotic" Organizations 58
Dynamics of Systemic Leadership 59
Influence and Intention 59
Openness and Communication 60
Autonomy and Accountability 60
Community and Systemic Leadership 60
Communities of Commitment 61
Communities of Discernment 62
Communities of Practice 62
Paradoxes of Systemic Leadership 63
Unity-Diversity 64
Asymmetry-Mutuality 65
Discipline-Creativity 65
Creation-Destruction 65
Conclusion: Systemic Leadership Is Ethical and Effective 66
Notes 66
References 67
Part III Relational Leadership, Gender, and Complexity Leadership Theory 70
6 Relational Leadership and Gender: From Hierarchy to Relationality 71
Introduction 72
Positioning Relationality in Leadership Research 73
Complexity Leadership: A Relational Form of Leadership 75
Complexity Leadership and Gender 75
Conclusion 78
Notes 79
References 79
7 Relational Leadership Theory: Exploring the Social Processes of Leadership and Organizing 81
The Entity (Individual Reality) Perspective 83
Leader-Member Exchange Theory 84
Hollander's Relational Theory 84
Charismatic Relationships 85
Relational and Collective Self 86
Social Networks 88
Rost's Postindustrial Leadership 90
Summary of Entity Perspectives 91
The "Relational" (Multiple Realities) Perspective 91
Relational Constructionism 92
Sayles (Lateral Relationships) 93
Drath and Murrell's ''Relational Leadership'' 94
Summary of Relational Perspectives 95
Comparing Entity and Relational Perspectives of Relational Leadership 95
Toward a Framework for Relational Leadership Theory 99
Relational Leadership Theory 100
Exploring Relational Dynamics 102
Conclusion 108
References 109
8 Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting Leadership from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Era 115
Leadership in the Knowledge Era 118
Limitations of Current Leadership Theory 119
The Argument for Complexity Leadership Theory: CAS Dynamics 121
Complexity Leadership Theory 123
A Framework for Complexity Leadership Theory 125
Adaptive Leadership 126
The Adaptive Role 128
Enabling Leadership 129
Administrative Leadership 134
Conclusion 137
Notes 139
References 139
9 Systemic Leadership, Gender, Organization 145
The Limits of Current Approaches to Leadership 147
Systemic Leadership: A Brief Introduction 154
Leadership Dynamics from a More Systemic Perspective 157
Implications of Rethinking Leadership Within Complex Organizational Systems for Women's Leadership 166
Conclusion 168
Notes 169
References 170
Part IV Leadership in Practice 172
10 Negotiating Ambivalence: The Leadership of Professional Women's Networks 173
Theoretical Framework 175
Design, Data and Analysis 177
Professional Women's Networks' Leaders' Presentations of Their Networks' Goals 179
Professional Women's Network Leaders' Ways to Address (Potential) Participants 181
Discussion and Conclusion 183
References 185
11 Why Do They Leave? Voluntary Turnover of South African Women Executives 188
Introduction 188
Aim of Study 189
Theoretical Background 189
Environmental Factors 190
Organizational Factors 191
Individual Factors 192
Spanning Factors 192
Research Issues and Design 194
Research Objective 194
Research Methodology 194
Research Design 194
Research Limitations 196
Results 196
Need to Make a Difference 198
Negotiation Ability 199
Burnout 200
Shocks 200
Social Networks 201
Values Clash 201
Problems with a manager 202
Organizational Culture 202
Lack of Organizational Support and Mentorship 203
Intimidation 203
Discussion 204
Conclusions and Recommendations 206
References 207
12 Empowering Women Empowering Cultures 211
Introduction 211
Diversity of Indigenous Contexts 212
Centrality of Land to Culture and the Trauma of Dispossession 213
Gender Dimensions of ''Deep Colonisation'' 214
Global Implications 215
Culture as Identity 216
Mothers, Daughters, Leaders 216
Jackie's Story 216
''Mum Shirl'' 218
Kunmanara Wilson 219
Mankiller 221
Radiating the ''Spirit'' 221
Leadership Styles 222
Walking in "Two Worlds" -- Working in a Global Context 222
Wisdoms 224
Giving Back 224
Conclusion 226
Notes 228
References 229
13 Every Girl Is a Leader: Organizing for Political Life in Chicago 232
The Significance of Centering Girls 234
The Interpellation of Girls and Youth 236
Girls Holding Space 238
Notes 243
References 244
14 Women Leading a Responsible Global Business 246
A Study of Dame Anita Roddick, Founder of the Body Shop 246
Foundations of Responsible Leadership 247
What Is Responsible Leadership? 247
What Is Responsible Leadership Behavior? 248
Applying the Roles Model of Responsible Leadership 249
The Leader as Visionary 249
The Leader as Steward 250
The Leader as Servant 251
The Leader as Citizen and Change Agent 252
The Leader as Networker 253
The Leader as Storyteller1 254
Responsible Leadership and the Female Archetype 255
Note 257
References 257
Conclusion 260
References 264
About the Authors 265
Name Index 268
Subject Index 276

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Issues in Business Ethics
• Reihe/Serie: Issues in Business Ethics
• Zusatzinfo: X, 279 p. 4 illus.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Alternative paradigms • Dynamics and ethics • Functioning of women • Gender and organisation • Gender theory • Organisational influence • Relational leadership • Systemic leadership • Systemic nature • systems thinking • Theoretical perspective • Women and Leadership • Women’s leadership
• ISBN-10: 90-481-9014-2 / 9048190142
• ISBN-13: 978-90-481-9014-0 / 9789048190140