H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

WOMLEAD · Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership: Using Research to Inform Practice

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-03-01 → 2024-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 216 166 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership: Using Research to Inform Practice

Despite the fact that women account for approximately half of the workforce, they occupy only 17% of senior executives in the European Union. While the paucity of women in senior roles may be attributable to multiple factors, gendered perceptions of leadership is among the more strongly supported explanations for the gender gap in leadership. That is, we have historically associated leadership with masculine characteristics because we often measure only masculine characteristics of leadership. However, much of the more recent scholarly literature in the leadership area emphasizes the importance of feminine and/or androhynous leadership characteristics. One such measure, servant leadership centers on engaging followers in relational, ethical, and emotional dimensions and on fostering the development of followers. As these leadership attributes are less masculine in nature, I posit that relying on servant leadership to assess followers may help decrease the gender gap in leadership. Societally, this is important, as one of the EU Prioties is "An economy that works for people – ensuring social fairness and prosperity" and the UN Sustainable Goal #5 is to "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls." The overall objectives are to examine whether managers who are seen as higher in servant leadership by their followers are more equitable in their evaluations of male and femaile subordinates. Further, I examine whether training peole in soft skills has the potential to make people see servant leadership as more aligned with their perceptions of an "ideal leader."

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The lack of women in leadership is a concern raised by several multinational organizations including the UN and the European Commission. Research suggests that womens underrepresentation is partly attributable to stereotypes regarding female leaders. Despite the persistence of these stereotypes, leadership scholars have shown that women are in fact, more skilled than men at almost all attributes that distinguish excellent leaders from average/poor ones. In an effort to lessen the gender gap in leadership, the current project seeks to solidify the business case for increased women in leadership, by developing and testing hypotheses to demonstrate that womens leadership advantages result in increased customer service. Based on research on servant leadership, which focuses on altruistic values that engage followers in relational and emotional dimensions, so they are empowered to grow, I propose that servant leadership will positively relate to subordinates soft skill development and that this relationship will be stronger among female leaders. Further, given the research linking soft skills to customer service, I propose that subordinates soft skill training will mediate the relationship between servant leadership and customer service. While I will publish theoretical and empirical studies based on this research in scholarly journals, a distinctive feature of the proposal is dissemination to non-academic stakeholders. I plan to lead seminars in the business community to share the practical implications of my findings. The pinnacle of my communication efforts will be creating a Womens Leadership Centre at USE that I will lead after the fellowship period. To prepare myself, I will carry out a secondment at an academic institution that has a diversity centre and at a non-academic organization focused on gender equality, to acquire knowledge about the pressing research issues facing European working women and to learn how to develop and sustain the centre at USE.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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