Leadership, Gender, and Organization

by Patricia H. Werhane and Mollie Painter-Morland

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048190134
• ISBN13: 9789048190133
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"