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  • 1.  Women in Leadership course

    Posted 09-07-2009 15:28
    I working to create an upper division undergraduate course on "Women in Leadership."  I would love to get your suggestions for appropriate books or readings that would be helpful for this course.  Also, if anyone has a syllabus for a comparable course, I'd love to see that as well.  Feel free to send this information directly to me, and I will post a compilation to the list.
     
    Thanks in advance.
     
    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    206-281-2243
     


  • 2.  Women in Leadership course

    Posted 09-07-2009 16:29
    Denise,
    I would recommend Carly Fiorina's "Tough Choices". Good business read from perhaps the most visible female CEO.
     
    Best wishes,
     
    Tim Munyon
     
     
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniels, Denise [ddaniels@SPU.EDU]
    Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 3:27 PM
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    Subject: [OB-LIST] Women in Leadership course

    I working to create an upper division undergraduate course on "Women in Leadership."  I would love to get your suggestions for appropriate books or readings that would be helpful for this course.  Also, if anyone has a syllabus for a comparable course, I'd love to see that as well.  Feel free to send this information directly to me, and I will post a compilation to the list.
     
    Thanks in advance.
     
    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    206-281-2243
     


  • 3.  Women in Leadership course

    Posted 09-07-2009 17:04
    There are a couple books that just came out recently that focus on Women in Leadership. 
     

    Through the Labyrinth : The Truth about How Women Become Leaders by Alice H. Eagly, Linda Carli

    APA has one titled The Glass Ceiling in the 21st Century.  That was a great souce for reviewing previous research studies, etc.

    Women and Leadership : The State of Play and Strategies for Change by Barbara Kellerman (Editor) , Deborah L. Rhode

     I would recommend the APA book as a great overview of the journey of women in leadership.  Has great references to past studies.  There are many more but these are the top 3 off the top of my head.  You also might want to look at the work done by CCL in the early 90s on Women in Leadership.

    Stacey


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    On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Timothy Munyon <tmunyon@bus.ucf.edu> wrote:
    Denise,
    I would recommend Carly Fiorina's "Tough Choices". Good business read from perhaps the most visible female CEO.
     
    Best wishes,
     
    Tim Munyon
     
     
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniels, Denise [ddaniels@SPU.EDU]
    Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 3:27 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Women in Leadership course

    I working to create an upper division undergraduate course on "Women in Leadership."  I would love to get your suggestions for appropriate books or readings that would be helpful for this course.  Also, if anyone has a syllabus for a comparable course, I'd love to see that as well.  Feel free to send this information directly to me, and I will post a compilation to the list.
     
    Thanks in advance.
     
    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    206-281-2243
     



  • 4.  Women in Leadership course

    Posted 09-07-2009 17:55

    On September 7, 2009, Daniels, Denise wrote:

    ...on "Women in Leadership..."  I would love to get your suggestions for appropriate books or readings....

     

    Reply from John Michela (to the whole list because the context is relevant to the selections): 

    Here is what I used one week in a course on various aspects of vision in leadership:

    Gender, Vision, and Leadership

    Required

    Eagly, A. H., & Carli, L. L.  (2004).  Women and men as leaders.  In J. Antonakis, A. T., Cianciolo, & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), The nature of leadership (pp. 279-301).  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publications.

    Ibarra, H. & Obodaru, O.  (2009). Women and the vision thing.  Harvard Business Review, 87 (1 [January]),  62-70.

    *Scott, K. A., & Brown, D. J.  (2006).  Female first, leader second?  Gender bias in the encoding of leadership behaviour.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 101, 230–242.

    Recommended

    *Eagly, A. H.  (2005). Achieving relational authenticity in leadership: Does gender matter?  Leadership Quarterly, 16 (3), 459-474.

    *Eagly, A. H., Johannesen-Schmidt, M. C., & van Engen, M. L.  (2003).  Transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles: A meta-analysis comparing women and men.  Psychological Bulletin, 129 (4), 569-591.

     

    Regards, John

     

    John L. Michela, Ph.D

    Department of Psychology

    University of Waterloo

    200 University Ave., W.

    Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1  Canada

    519.888.4567 x32164

    jmichela@uwaterloo.ca



     

     



  • 5.  Women in Leadership course

    Posted 09-08-2009 14:13

    Denise,

     

    A lot of very good research on women and leadership comes from Alice H. Eagly at Northwestern University (Psychology department).  Also, status characteristics theory (and/or expectations states theory) out of Stanford relates to the topic of women and leadership.      

     

    In addition, the textbook "Leadership: Theory & Practice" (Peter G. Northouse, 2007, 4th Ed.) that I use for undergraduate leadership has a good chapter written on women and leadership (the chapter was written by Crystal L. Hoyt).  It does a good job of covering research findings on gender differences as they apply to women and leadership.  For example the chapter reviews research findings that women tend to be more transformational, democratic (vs. autocratic), have higher levels of integrity, and serve as social facilitators more than men.  In addition, that women tend to be less assertive, emerge less, self-promote less, and negotiate less than men.      

     

    The chapter also discusses important concepts as they relate to women and leadership such as perception biases and prejudice, statistics on the presence and flux of the glass ceiling, and a little bit about the double standard that women leaders face – That women must come across as extremely competent (assertive?) but also be seen as appropriately "female."  A standard male leaders do not face.

     

    Also, the Center for Women's Global leadership (www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/) and the Institute for Women's leadership (iwl.rutgers.edu/) at Rutgers may be useful resources.  Finally, some interesting books might be:

     

    "Why Women Should Rule the World" (2008, Dee Dee Myers).

    "Through the labyrinth: The truth about how women become leaders" (2007, Eagly, & Carli).

     

    Good luck with the course,

     

    Bret Bradley

    University of Oklahoma 

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniels, Denise
    Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 2:28 PM
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    Subject: [OB-LIST] Women in Leadership course

     

    I working to create an upper division undergraduate course on "Women in Leadership."  I would love to get your suggestions for appropriate books or readings that would be helpful for this course.  Also, if anyone has a syllabus for a comparable course, I'd love to see that as well.  Feel free to send this information directly to me, and I will post a compilation to the list.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.

    Professor of Management

    School of Business & Economics

    Seattle Pacific University

    206-281-2243

     



  • 6.  Women in Leadership course

    Posted 09-08-2009 16:06
    Dear Denise,
     
    Alice Eagly and I have just finished a review chapter of leadership and gender. I think you will find many useful references there (See attached). The chapter will be published soon:
     

    Kark, R. & Eagly, A. (in press). Gender and leadership: Negotiating the labyrinth. In J. C. Chrisler & D. R. McCreary (Eds.), Handbook of gender research in psychology. New York: Springer.


    Good luck,
     
    Ronit
    On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Daniels, Denise <ddaniels@spu.edu> wrote:
    I working to create an upper division undergraduate course on "Women in Leadership."  I would love to get your suggestions for appropriate books or readings that would be helpful for this course.  Also, if anyone has a syllabus for a comparable course, I'd love to see that as well.  Feel free to send this information directly to me, and I will post a compilation to the list.
     
    Thanks in advance.
     
    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    206-281-2243
     



    --
    Ronit Kark, PhD

    Head of the 'Social-Organizational' Group
    The Department of Psychology

    Head of 'Gender in The Field' Program
    The Graduate Program for Gender Studies

    Bar-Ilan University
    Ramat Gan, 52900 Israel

    Phone: 972-2-5702940
    Fax: 972-2-6434820
    e-mail: karkro@mail.biu.ac.il



  • 7.  Women in Leadership course

    Posted 09-09-2009 06:57
    Denise,

    Complementing the contributions of our colleagues I wish to suggest the work that gravitates around Marta Calás and Linda Smircich, where I have found much inspriration on leadership issues, whether by females or males, though their perspective is refreshingly feminine.

    Pieces like the ones below would be an excellent start, if you are not aware of them already.

    Deconstruction charismatic leadership: re-reading Weber from the darker side; Calás M. Leadership Quarterly; 1993 Vol. 4, p305-328, 24p.

    Calas MB (Calas, Marta B.) Source: GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION    Volume: 15    Issue: 3    Pages: 298-302   

    Best,

    Alfredo
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    On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Daniels, Denise <ddaniels@spu.edu> wrote:
    I working to create an upper division undergraduate course on "Women in Leadership."  I would love to get your suggestions for appropriate books or readings that would be helpful for this course.  Also, if anyone has a syllabus for a comparable course, I'd love to see that as well.  Feel free to send this information directly to me, and I will post a compilation to the list.
     
    Thanks in advance.
     
    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    206-281-2243
     



  • 8.  Women in Leadership course

    Posted 09-09-2009 09:42
    Denise, chapters from the following books would add "spice" to the "Women & Leadership" mixture:
    • Louie, Miriam C.Y.  2001.  Sweatshop warriors:  Immigrant women workers take on the global factory.  Cambridge, MA.  South End Press.  Chapters include stories of Chinese, Korean, Mexican immigrant women workers who take up and lead the struggle for their colleagues' rights in the workplace -- "other" women who are leaders, not just white collar, middle class professionals and managers.
    • Bell, Ella L.J. and Stella M. Nkomo.  2001.  Our Separate Ways:  Black and white women and the struggle for professional identity.  Boston:  Harvard Business School Press.
    • Ely, Robin J., Erica G. Foldy, Maureen A. Scully and The Center for Gender in Organzations.  2003.  Reader in Gender, Work, and Organization.  Malden, MA:  Blackwell.  (In particular, Parts II - IV, Negotiation, Leadership, and Organizational Change and Intervention.)
    • Assorted "Insights" from the Center for Gender in Organzations, Simmons School of Management:  Available online at http://www.simmons.edu/som/centers/cgo/
    Also, attached is the syllabus from my Fall 2003 seminar, Women in Business: Past, Present and Future.  Perhaps you will find something helpful there.
     
    Enjoy the course!
     
    Debbie Litvin
     


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    From: Ronit Kark <karkronit@GMAIL.COM>
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    Sent: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 4:05 pm
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    Dear Denise,
     
    Alice Eagly and I have just finished a review chapter of leadership and gender. I think you will find many useful references there (See attached). The chapter will be published soon:
     
    Kark, R. & Eagly, A. (in press). Gender and leadership: Negotiating the labyrinth. In J. C. Chrisler & D. R. McCreary (Eds.), Handbook of gender research in psychology. New York: Springer.

    Good luck,
     
    Ronit
    On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Daniels, Denise <ddaniels@spu.edu> wrote:
    I working to create an upper division undergraduate course on "Women in Leadership."  I would love to get your suggestions for appropriate books or readings that would be helpful for this course.  Also, if anyone has a syllabus for a comparable course, I'd love to see that as well.  Feel free to send this information directly to me, and I will post a compilation to the list.
     
    Thanks in advance.
     
    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    206-281-2243
     



    --
    Ronit Kark, PhD

    Head of the 'Social-Organizational' Group
    The Department of Psychology

    Head of 'Gender in The Field' Program
    The Graduate Program for Gender Studies

    Bar-Ilan University
    Ramat Gan, 52900 Israel

    Phone: 972-2-5702940
    Fax: 972-2-6434820
    e-mail: karkro@mail.biu.ac.il



  • 9.  Women in Leadership course

    Posted 09-11-2009 20:11

    Attached is a summary of all the responses I received from my query about articles or books relevant for an undergraduate "Women in Leadership" course.  Thanks to the many of you who responded!

     

    Denise

     

    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Associate Dean, School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    Phone: (206) 281-2243
    Fax: (206) 281-2733
    Email: ddaniels@spu.edu