Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?

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Autor(a) principal: Brunner, Sophie Sabine
Data de Publicação: 2018
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/26919
Resumo: In today’s fast moving business environment outstanding leaders are needed. However, women have a significant under-representation in executive positions in many European countries. The aim of this dissertation is to identify the challenges that female leaders have to address in a male-dominated environment and the strategies they can perform to overcome them. For this purpose, the literature dedicated to female leadership was analyzed and a qualitative research was conducted, which comprised of ten interviews with female executives. The findings show that female leaders follow different strategies that play at individual, group and network level in order to overcome emerging challenges when ascending in their business environment. As a result, these strategies enable women in leadership positions to act as institutional change agents. This research might be of relevance for women which are currently addressing challenges and also for young females who aim to achieve an executive position. Consequently, this master thesis contributes to the academic literature by offering strategic responses to emerging challenges while simultaneously providing a new perspective on women in leadership positions.
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spelling Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?LeadershipFemale leadershipChange agentInstitutional change agentLiderançaLiderança femininaAgente de mudançaAgentes de mudança institucionalDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoIn today’s fast moving business environment outstanding leaders are needed. However, women have a significant under-representation in executive positions in many European countries. The aim of this dissertation is to identify the challenges that female leaders have to address in a male-dominated environment and the strategies they can perform to overcome them. For this purpose, the literature dedicated to female leadership was analyzed and a qualitative research was conducted, which comprised of ten interviews with female executives. The findings show that female leaders follow different strategies that play at individual, group and network level in order to overcome emerging challenges when ascending in their business environment. As a result, these strategies enable women in leadership positions to act as institutional change agents. This research might be of relevance for women which are currently addressing challenges and also for young females who aim to achieve an executive position. Consequently, this master thesis contributes to the academic literature by offering strategic responses to emerging challenges while simultaneously providing a new perspective on women in leadership positions.O atual ambiente empresarial encontra-se em rápida evolução e, como tal, são necessários líderes extraordinários. Contudo, em diversos países Europeus, as mulheres estão sub-representadas em posições executivas. O objetivo desta dissertação passa por identificar as estratégias que as líderes femininas têm de adotar para ultrapassar os desafios que lhes são lançados num ambiente dominado por homens. Para tal, foi analisada literatura sobre liderança feminina e foi realizada uma análise qualitativa, onde dez mulheres executivas foram entrevistadas. Os resultados indicam que as líderes femininas seguem diferentes estratégias a nível individual, de grupo e de network para superar os desafios emergentes quando ascendem de posição no ambiente empresarial. Como tal, estas estratégias possibilitam que mulheres em posições de liderança atuem como agentes de mudança institucional. Este estudo pode ser relevante para mulheres que se encontrem perante estes desafios e, também, para mulheres jovens que ambicionam alcançar uma posição executiva. Consequentemente, esta tese de mestrado contribui para a literatura académica, uma vez que revela soluções estratégias para desafios emergentes, ao mesmo tempo que proporciona uma nova perspetiva sobre mulheres em posições de liderança.Ramus, TommasoVeritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaBrunner, Sophie Sabine2019-02-20T11:02:24Z2019-02-0520182019-02-05T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/26919TID:202170713enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-09-06T12:24:30Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/26919Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openairemluisa.alvim@gmail.comopendoar:71602024-09-06T12:24:30Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?
title Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?
spellingShingle Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?
Brunner, Sophie Sabine
Leadership
Female leadership
Change agent
Institutional change agent
Liderança
Liderança feminina
Agente de mudança
Agentes de mudança institucional
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?
title_full Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?
title_fullStr Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?
title_full_unstemmed Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?
title_sort Women in leadership positions : how do female leaders address challenges associated with their role in a male-dominated organizational environment?
author Brunner, Sophie Sabine
author_facet Brunner, Sophie Sabine
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ramus, Tommaso
Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Brunner, Sophie Sabine
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Leadership
Female leadership
Change agent
Institutional change agent
Liderança
Liderança feminina
Agente de mudança
Agentes de mudança institucional
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic Leadership
Female leadership
Change agent
Institutional change agent
Liderança
Liderança feminina
Agente de mudança
Agentes de mudança institucional
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description In today’s fast moving business environment outstanding leaders are needed. However, women have a significant under-representation in executive positions in many European countries. The aim of this dissertation is to identify the challenges that female leaders have to address in a male-dominated environment and the strategies they can perform to overcome them. For this purpose, the literature dedicated to female leadership was analyzed and a qualitative research was conducted, which comprised of ten interviews with female executives. The findings show that female leaders follow different strategies that play at individual, group and network level in order to overcome emerging challenges when ascending in their business environment. As a result, these strategies enable women in leadership positions to act as institutional change agents. This research might be of relevance for women which are currently addressing challenges and also for young females who aim to achieve an executive position. Consequently, this master thesis contributes to the academic literature by offering strategic responses to emerging challenges while simultaneously providing a new perspective on women in leadership positions.
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