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Description
Leadership and Gender explores a variety of issues related to gender, business, and leadership from different theoretical perspectives. Students learn the dynamic relationship between leaders, followers, and situations, and the role of gender as it relates to leadership and management. Students identify their own beliefs regarding gender issues in the workplace. They analyze and recommend a set of organizational strategies related to equity in the environment.
Texts
Women at Work: Leadership for the Next Century by Dayle M. Smith The Art and Science of Leadership by A. Nahavandi
From the lecture...
There are five practices of successful leaders. Leaders challenge the process, take risks. They inspire a shared vision. They enable others to act. They model the way. They encourage the heart. These are the kinds of behaviors that help people break that glass ceiling.
We need to think about what we expect from the people we are leading. When you have high expectations, people tend to perform well. When you have low expectations, they tend to perform poorly. If you keep hearing you’ll never amount to anything, low and behold, you’ll never amount to anything. That’s pretty powerful stuff, but it plays out in the workplace everyday. We need to turn stereotypes around.
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