Overview
- Challenges current leadership paradigms
- Advances our thinking about women and leadership through integrated contributions from diverse fields such as philosophy, sociology and business ethics.
- Provides more systemic explanations for the way gender discourses operate within organisations, by drawing not only on practice but by moving beyond narratives.
Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 27)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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An Historical Perspective
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Transformational Leadership and Systems Thinking
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Relational Leadership, Gender, and Complexity Leadership Theory
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Leadership in Practice
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leadership, Gender, and Organization
Editors: Patricia Werhane, Mollie Painter-Morland
Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9014-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9013-3Published: 22 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1532-2Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9014-0Published: 23 April 2011
Series ISSN: 0925-6733
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 279
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Gender Studies, Business and Management, general, Labour Law/Social Law