Women's Leadership

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Author: Valerie Stead

ISBN-10: 1403998752

ISBN-13: 9781403998750

Category: Executives

This volume is distinctive because it explores different concepts of leadership, seeks to challenge traditional concepts, and to explode common myths. In contrast to the traditional male, hierarchical, value free and organisational bound construction of leadership, this text presents an alternative construction that is female, non-hierarchical and underpinned and driven by values, rooted in community and beyond the boundaries of traditional organizations. This volume uses examples from...

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This book explores different concepts of leadership, and presents an alternative construction that is female, non-hierarchical, and underpinned and driven by values, rooted in community and beyond the boundaries of traditional organizations.

Introduction 1Pt. I Understandings of Women's Leadership1 Common Understandings: Leadership and Leadership Development 152 Visualising Women's Leadership : Stereotypes and Metaphors 40Pt. II Gender, Women and Leadership3 Women's Experiences of Becoming Leaders 634 Gender Matters 88Pt. III Progressing Women's Leadership5 Women's Leadership Identity 1176 Women Learning Leadership 1347 Reflections and Conclusions 162References 172Index 184