Women as global leaders / edited by Faith Wambura Ngunjiri (Concordia College, MN) and Susan R. Madsen (Utah Valley University).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ngunjiri, Faith Wambura, 1973- editor.

Madsen, Susan R., editor.

Series:

Women and leadership (Charlotte, N.C.)

Women and leadership: research, theory, and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership in women.

Women executives.

Women in the professions.

Women heads of state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women as Global Leaders is the second volume in the new Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice book series published for the International Leadership Association by IAP. Global leadership is an emerging area of research, with only a small but growing published literature base. More specifically, the topic of women's advances and adventures in leading within the global context is barely covered in the existing leadership literature. Although few women are serving in global leadership roles in corporate and non-profit arenas, and as heads of nations, that number is growing (e.g., Indira Nooyi at PepsiCo, Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president of Liberia, Angela Merkel as chancellor of Germany).The purpose of this volume is to provide the reader with current conceptualizations and theory related to women as global leaders, recent empirical investigations of the phenomenon, analysis of effective global leadership development programs, and portraits of women who lead, or have led, in a global role. The volume is divided into four sections. The first section covers the state of women as global leaders, containing chapters by Joyce Osland and Nancy Adler, pioneers in the field of global and/or women's leadership. The second section describes approaches to women's global leadership. The third section offers an analysis of programs that are useful in developing women as global leaders, with the final section profiling women as global leaders, including Margaret Thatcher, Nobel Laureate Malala Yousfazai, and Golda Meir. As Barbara Kellerman noted in the Foreword, "this book... should be understood as a collection whose time has come, precisely because women now have opportunities to lead that are far more expansive than they were even in the recent past. Though their numbers remain low, they are able in some cases to exercise leadership not only as outsiders, but also as insiders, from the very positions of power and authority to which men forever have had access."

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Women as Global Leaders""; ""part I""; ""Introducing Global Leadership""; ""Women Leaders""; ""PART II""; ""Women and Global Leadership""; ""Multipl e Intelligences of Effective Women Global Leaders""; ""Women Leading Through the Lens of Cult ural Intelligence""; ""Becoming More Themselv es""; ""Global Women Leaders""; ""Part III""; ""Advancing Women�s Executive Development""; ""A Master�s Degree in Global Leadership""; ""Women�s Leadership Learning Through Global Study in Central and South America""; ""part IV""

""What Films Reveal about Women as Global Leaders""""Malala Yousafzai""; ""Beyond the Appendage Syndrome""; ""What Kind of Leader Was Mrs. Thatcher?""; ""About the Authors""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-62396-966-2