re-envisioning organizational leadership from the perspectives of African American women executives
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Parker, Patricia
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2005
- Thesaurus
- leidinggevende beroepen, managers, bedrijven, zwarte vrouwen, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- This book directs the focus to a view of leadership as a multicultural phenomenon that moves beyond dualistic notions of 'masculine' and 'feminine' leadership, and focuses more specifically on leadership as the management of meaning, including the meanings of the notion of 'organizational leader.' The book's focus is on leadership 'traditions' revealed in the history of Black women in America and exemplified in the leadership approaches of 15 African American women executives who came of age during the civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960's and 1970's and climbed to the top of major U.S. organizations