Abstract
The main objective of this research is to identify the women’s leadership model diffused through management literature in order to determine if there is a pre-eminence of essentialist and exclusionary principles in its sense. Through the Appraisal Theory and by analyzing a recent management literature sample, the values associated with the women’s leadership model are identified, and a conclusion about their essentialist character is reached. The initial hypothesis is that the women’s leadership model, disseminated to professional women through management literature, contains an essentialist character that reproduces gender dichotomies and the rational homo oeconomicus model by hindering gender equality and the development of egalitarian leadership models from being accomplished.
Highlights
There are the results, which are divided into four thematic parts: The language of psychology in management literature; organizational culture and women’s leadership; values related with women’s leadership in management literature; and the essentialist nature of the discourse based on neuroscientific arguments
The three dimensions of analysis that will be presented represent the key topic issues present in the popular management literature analyzed: The language of psychology in management literature; organizational culture and women’s leadership; values related with women’s leadership in management literature; and the essentialist nature of the discourse based on neuroscientific arguments
We identify the triple nature of the management literature for women: Its psychological, aspirational, and depoliticized tone
Summary
The main objective of this research is to identify the women’s leadership model demanded by companies in an attempt to discern whether this model has an essentialist character that reproduces gender dichotomies or not. This identification will be made by analyzing the management literature addressed to women (Collins 2000; Greatbatch and Clark 2003; Fernández Rodríguez 2007), a work dynamics dissemination tool that contains a moralizing character, which determines the “right” ways to manage a company (Jackson 2001; Huczynski 2006). The originality of this work lies in creating its own glimpse from which to deal with the possibilities of founding a business space that moves towards equality through women’s leadership
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