Leadership, Gender, and Organization (Issues in Business Ethics Book 27)

This text provides perspectives on the way in which gender plays a role in leadership dynamics and ethics within organizations. We are also interested in understanding how women engage in other forms of social organization, i.e. organization that goes beyond, or operates outside of formal institutions or assigned positions of authority. This text seeks to explore 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, and about the role women play in organization, understood here also as a verb, not just a noun. 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. This text provides perspectives on the way in which gender plays a role in leadership dynamics and ethics within organizations. We are also interested in understanding how women engage in other forms of social organization, i.e. organization that goes beyond, or operates outside of formal institutions or assigned positions of authority. This text seeks to explore 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, and about the role women play in organization, understood here also as a verb, not just a noun. 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 Front Matter....Pages i-x Leadership, Gender, and Organization....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Not Your Mother’s Women’s Movement: Women and Leadership in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 11-18 Ways Women Lead....Pages 19-29 Front Matter....Pages 31-31 Women Leaders in a Globalized World....Pages 33-48 Systemic Leadership: Ethical and Effective....Pages 49-62 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 Relational Leadership and Gender: From Hierarchy to Relationality....Pages 65-74 Relational Leadership Theory: Exploring the Social Processes of Leadership and Organizing....Pages 75-108 Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting Leadership from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Era....Pages 109-138 Systemic Leadership, Gender, Organization....Pages 139-165 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 Negotiating Ambivalence: The Leadership of Professional Women’s Networks....Pages 169-183 Why Do They Leave? Voluntary Turnover of South African Women Executives....Pages 185-207 Empowering Women Empowering Cultures....Pages 209-229 Every Girl Is a Leader: Organizing for Political Life in Chicago....Pages 231-244 Women Leading a Responsible Global Business....Pages 245-258 Back Matter....Pages 259-279 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. Women's Leadership, Gender and Organisaton describes the way gender plays a role in leadership dynamics and ethics within organisations. The text offers invaluable theoretical perspectives and narratives to graduate students and researchers interested in women's leadership, gender and organisation. Edited By Patricia H. Werhane And Mollie Painter-morland. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.