Emerging models of power among South African women business leaders
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Emerging models of power among South African women business leaders | |
| Creator | Kinnear, Lisa Ortlepp, Karen | |
| Description | Orientation: This paper represents a broader study which explores how South African women business leaders construct power in their life and leadership narratives. The research was approached with a feminist paradigm in its review of constructions of power and their potential for transformation of patriarchal power dynamics.Research purpose: The purpose was to critically analyse emerging models of power among South African women business leaders to include their perspectives in the process of theory building.Motivation for the study: Women in senior leadership positions are not necessarily enabling the transformation of organisations to include greater representation of women at senior levels. A critical understanding of women’s models of power may highlight unconscious processes contributing to this as well as emerging models that can facilitate change.Research design, approach and method: Qualitative research was conducted within a feminist social constructionist framework, using the method of discourse analysis of narrative texts to identify emerging models of power. The 10 women in the study included executives within corporations across a range of industry sectors in South Africa.Practical/managerial implications: The findings may guide approaches to gender transformation efforts in organisations and raise women leaders’ awareness of their conscious and unconscious impact on gender empowerment.Contribution/value-add: A novel contribution of this study is the emerging transformative model of power and the tensions women experience in asserting this power. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2016-11-29 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajip.v42i1.1359 | |
| Source | SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 42, No 1 (2016); 11 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200 | |
| Language | eng | |
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