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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Male leaders"”.
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Embodied Leadership and Conditional Legitimacy: Critically Conscious Male Leaders Navigating Systems of Power
<p>Leadership is not a neutral concept; it is shaped by overlapping systems of power, including empire, whiteness, neoliberal capitalism, and cisheteropatriarchy. These interlocking systems influence how leadership is defined, recognized, and legitimized, often privileging particular identities and …
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#BLACKQUEERLIVESMATTER: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Black Gay Male Leaders in Los Angeles
… agencies, and law enforcement. Black gay male leadership is not a conversation within leadership academia. This phenomenological study focuses on understanding the lived experiences and leadership among Black gay men who are leaders in Los Angeles County. This study found that the lived …
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FOLLOWERS' REACTIONS TO FEMALE LEADERS: LEADER'S ORIENTATIONS, PROTOTYPICAL CATEGORIZATIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Followers' perceptions of female leaders tend to be different from male leaders. For instance, the prototypes that correspond to female leaders tend to be more communal and transformational, whereas male leaders are associated with agentic and dominant leadership prototypes. Female leaders can be …
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Employee Perceptions of Managers Who Express Anger: Could a High Quality Relationship Buffer Women from Backlash?
… manager-employee relationship could buffer female leaders from the negative perceptions and retaliatory actions they tend to receive for expressing anger. Research has shown that female leaders who express anger at work violate the stereotype that women should be warm and communal and are …
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"A Raisin in a Box": The Experiences of Racialized Black Males in Leadership Roles in the Non-Profit Sector in Toronto, Canada
… of the few people of colour who occupy leadership roles in organizations (Berkshire, 2008; Bradshaw et al., 2009; Mills et al., 2010; Nkomo, 2011; Ospina & Foldy, 2009). Astonishingly, organizations in diverse communities also have exiguous conversations about such salient issues like …
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Leadership Effectiveness: Investigating the Influences of Leader Sex, Gender, and Behaviors on Self and Other Perceptions
… role congruity theory both posit that women in leadership positions are likely to face more negative criticism than men in leadership positions. The purpose of the current study was to examine the influence of gender roles on leader behaviors as well as leaders' self perceived effectiveness. The …
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An investigation into gender differences with respect to administrative leadership styles: case of Polokwane Municipality
… differences and stereotypes in administrative leadership style have been a contested terrain all over the world. In particular female leaders happen to be victims of this scourge. Statistics show that people generally prefer to be led by male leaders. The study seeks to establish the …
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Race and gender effects on leadership perceptions
… perceived leader skill, motivation to lead, and leadership self-efficacy of themselves and other students with whom they collaborate in formal student organizations. The study investigated members of student organizations of a large, public, Midwestern research university. Results indicated …
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Exploring how female leaders lead a culturally diverse workforce in the South African mining industry
In the past, leadership in nearly all industries was dominated by males, based upon the belief that women should be caregivers, wives and mothers. While perceptions and laws have changed, striving for gender equality, many men uphold the discriminatory and socially-influenced beliefs in the …
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Kuwaiti female leaders' perspectives: the influence of culture on their leadership in organizations
… between the Kuwaiti culture, gender, and leadership from the perspective of 5 Kuwaiti female leaders. The primary focus of the research is to contribute to the literature, currently lacking, that discusses the phenomenon of female leadership development in the State of Kuwait. Recently, …
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Emotional Intelligence, Social Competence, and Success in High School Students
… Success was operationally defined as elected leadership within a school group, club, or organization. The study sample consisted of 31 males and 89 females ages fourteen to seventeen years (grades 9 through 11) from three counties in south-central Kentucky. Student participants were …
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Characteristics of leadership styles and program development among African American males at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… demographics, then it must be assured that Black males have equal opportunity for access and affordability to attain degree completion. Black male students interested in success have much to learn from Black men who have actually been successful. Leadership is an attitude, behavior, personality, …
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What is the Value as Described by Senior Leaders of Understanding Individual Brain Sex Differences in the Workplace - An Exploration
… this research was to explore the value to senior leaders of understanding individual brain sex differences in the workplace, particularly in the context of the limited representation of women at the highest executive levels in modern corporations. While there is evidence supporting the positive …
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Volunteer Women: Militarized Femininity in the 1916 Easter Rising
… as clear foils to the heroic narratives of the male leaders in the Easter Rising. In reality, however, most of the women who joined Cumann na mBan or worked for the leaders of the Easter Rising chose to do so knowing they would take on a supportive role. They did so willingly, and even put the …
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Perceptions of Leaders: The Role of Leader Prototypes and Intervention to Improve Judgments of Female Leaders
… and judgments of others with regard to leadership. This dissertation uses a connectionist perspective of leadership to investigate differences in perceptions and judgments of male and female leaders, and provides the first empirical test of Hogue and Lord's (2007) model for gender bias …
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White Bodies, Black Gaze: Constructions of White Masculinity in White-Male Elite Discourses on Leadership and Diversity
This study examines white-male elite understandings of diversity and leadership to consider possibilities for exploring articulations of white masculinity. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with white-male leaders in their organizations who by virtue of their race, gender, class, …
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Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
… their consequences elicited disapprobation from male leaders.
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Media representations of gender in the Scottish public sphere in the context of the 2014 independence referendum
… with more informal naming practices used for female politicians.There was also evidence of a personalisation of political figures, although in this case a higher amount of discussion focused on male leaders. Contrary to findings of comparable studies, both male and female politicians had similar …
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The effects of sex of the leader, sex of the subordinate, locus of cause, stability of cause, and leader involvement on attributions and corrective actions
… and Mitchell's (1979) Attributional Model of Leadership. Seventy-one male and 77 female undergraduate Introductory Psychology students served as leaders in Study I. They supervised either a male or female subordinate on a clerical task. The subordinate was a confederate of the experimenter and …
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Cognitive Development in Student Leaders and Non-leaders
… study examined cognitive development in student leaders and non-leaders. Participants included 60 students (30 student leaders and 30 non-leaders). Each group contained equal numbers of males and females. The Measure of Epistemological Reflection (MER) (Baxter Magolda & Porterfield, 1985) was …
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