Actors of Discourse: A Grounded Theory Exploration of Women's Leadership as a Gendered Performance | Posted on:2015-08-09 | Degree:Ph.D | Type:Dissertation | University:The Chicago School of Professional Psychology | Candidate:Graves, Daniella | Full Text:PDF | GTID:1479390017499836 | Subject:Sociology | Abstract/Summary: | PDF Full Text Request | This study explores the role of societal gender expectations in informing women leaders' self-presentation, or impression management, efforts. The study seeks a greater level of understanding regarding women's experience in the workplace, the impact of social incentives on image performances, and the role of gender norms in the social construction of leadership. Throughout the study, leaders' presentation of self efforts are analyzed through impression management theories, while gender norms are considered at the micro and macro levels of interaction. Twenty interviews with women leaders are analyzed, and grounded theory is used to explore presentation of self techniques and gender norms for a more integrated theory of leadership. The research finds that an individual's leadership role is a social construction--one that connects identity and gender. As such, the women leaders' presentation of self efforts consist of mindful constructions in the projection of their self and larger social norms. | Keywords/Search Tags: | Women, Gender, Leadership, Leaders', Efforts, Presentation, Theory, Social | PDF Full Text Request | Related items |
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