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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"female leaders"”.
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Perceptions Of Executive Female Leaders In Athletics
… at the decision-making table to support the new female teams ("NCAA SWA brochure," 2011). Title IX legislation was already a decade old when the NCAA added women’s teams and the platform to grow women in sport was forefront (Glazor-Raymo, Townsend, & Ropers-Huilman, 2000, p. 184). Today, there …
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Female Leaders and Women's Empowerment; 3 Case Studies
… are more likely to hold the attention of female leaders, but even absent security threats, female leaders will still vary in their level of attention to these issues, vis-à-vis other social issues. I have chosen this topic because it is a common assumption that women leaders will be …
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Women's Leadership: Young Men's Expectations of Female Leaders
… sought to understand young men’s expectations of female leaders. Interviews of twenty pre-professional millennial men, most from major Midwestern cities were coded using InVivo and other initial coding methods to identify themes and categories that built a grounded theory. While many young men …
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Exploration of the Socialization Process of Female Leaders in Counselor Education
… that pertain to mentoring styles in academia, female faculty, gender and leadership, and recruitment and retention of women and minorities in academia. However, specific references that lend voice to the experiences of female counselor educators in the context of their career paths and patterns …
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The Resilience Of Black Female Leaders In Higher Education And Racial Microaggression
<p>This study explored the experiences of Black female leaders in higher education and their encounters with racial microaggression. Additionally, the opportunity to understand the effects of racial slights within the workplace as either a mid to senior level leadership was also explored. …
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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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Intersectionality in corporate South Africa: the experiences of African black female leaders
… deficiency (perceptions that women have minimal leadership potential); and (2) agentic penalty (a backlash against counter-stereotypical behaviour from certain women). There has generally been an assumption that the stereotypes upon which these biases are based are comparable for women across …
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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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Here Be Dragons: The Barriers of Korean American Female Leaders in Secondary Schools
… is a shortage of Korean American women in school leadership roles at the secondary level. This phenomenological study explores the contributing factors to this lack of representation, how institutions can recruit and retain Korean American female leaders, and how school systems can better support …
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Female leaders in commercial real estate : to the women following in their footsteps
… have been made in the status of women in leadership positions, gender-based disparity still exists. The purpose of this study is to shed more light on the facilitators and barriers to career advancement of women in commercial real estate who have achieved top-level leadership positions. …
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The emergence of female leaders: the effects of self-monitoring, priming and task characteristics
… of women in the workforce, women still emerge as leaders in organizations less often than men. In order to understand this phenomenon, the current study explores the effects of self-monitoring, task characteristics, and priming on emergent male and female leaders. 160 high and low self-monitors …
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Authenticity and female leaders: a qualitative study exploring the leadership practices of female university administrators
Using the construct of authentic leadership, this interpretive phenomenological study explored the leadership practices of seven female university leaders. Authentic leadership involves self-awareness, balanced processing, authentic action and relational transparency. Self-awareness is a lifelong …
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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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Fake It Until You Make It? Female Leaders’ Emotional Expression Management and Subordinates’ Gender Stereotypes
<p>As part of their organizational role, leaders manage their emotional expressions for the purpose of maintaining influence over followers, a concept that has received far less attention than the impact of other leadership behaviors. Further, there is almost no existing research regarding an …
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Exploring the experience of simultaneous individual and group coaching of female leaders in a multinational organisation
… face a constant requirement to develop leaders who are equipped to lead effectively in a highly volatile and uncertain environment. Executive Coaching is increasingly being used as a way to develop leaders, however very little is known about the impact of using simultaneous individual …
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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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Mean girls club : a multiple case study exploring perceptions of incivility among female leaders in academic healthcare.
… healthcare organizations, particularly for female leaders who often encounter barriers to professional growth and leadership development. In this multiple-case study, I explored how five female leaders in various academic healthcare institutions describe the relationship between reciprocal …
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The Women and Peace Hypothesis in the Age of Nancy Pelosi: Can Female Leaders Bring About World Peace?
… whether as ordinary citizens or as government leaders. I test this concept by analyzing the percent of women in the parliaments and executive cabinets of 93 nations over a 31-year-period, comparing these figures to the presence of violent interstate conflicts for each country-year. Controlling …
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Through the labyrinth: an inquiry into the lived experiences and leadership characteristics of female leaders in Indian newsrooms.
… in Media, India found that a major concern for female journalists was the lack of women in positions of leadership within the newsrooms (NWMI 2018). Further, a 2019 report by UN Women titled Gender Inequality in Indian Media found that only 5% of leadership positions in newspapers are held by …
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