Women's Leadership

ISBN-13: 9781403998750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 208 str.

Carole Elliott; Valerie Stead

Opis

Women's Leadership challenges traditional concepts of leadership that drawon the male experience andoffers an alternative construction that emerges from the female experience. Highlighting leadership's social, cultural and political roots, the authors argue that leadership is neither a free floating nor a gender neutral concept."

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: UNDERSTANDINGS OF WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP Leadership and Leadership Development: common understandings Visualising Women's Leadership: stereotypes and metaphors PART II: GENDER, WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP Women's Experiences of Becoming Leaders Gender Matters PART III: PROGRESSING WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP Women's Leadership Identity Women Learning Leadership Looking to the future: Reflections and conclusions

O autorze

VALERIE STEAD is a Lecturer in the Department of Management Learning and Leadership at Lancaster University Management School, UK.

CAROLE ELLIOTT is a Lecturer in the Department of Management Learning and Leadership at Lancaster University Management School, UK. With Sharon Turnbull she is the editor of Critical Thinking in Human Resource Development (2005).