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dc.contributor.authorLord, Linley
dc.contributor.authorPreston, Alison
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T14:58:47Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T14:58:47Z
dc.date.created2009-12-03T20:02:11Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationLord, Linley Anne and Preston, Alison. 2009. Understanding leadership experiences: the need for story sharing and feminist literature as a survival manual for leadership. Gender and Education 21 (6): pp. 769-777.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42308
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09540250903119153
dc.description.abstract

This paper uses an auto-ethnographic storytelling approach to connect an individual's experience in leadership with the literature on women in leadership as a way of further exposing and understanding gendered organisational practices. Whilst the paper details only one women's experience it was through the connection to the literature that most "sense making" occurred and a realisation (on the part of one of the authors) that the experience was not unique or individualised but, rather, systematic of masculine, gendered, organisational cultures. The paper offers some "strategies for survival" for other women who may find themselves in similar situations. It concludes with a call for programs and strategies to bring about fundamental change. Although the setting is the higher education sector in Australia the paper's findings and recommendations have much broader applicability.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectsensemaking
dc.subjectstorytelling
dc.subjectleadership
dc.subjectacademic women
dc.subjectuniversities
dc.titleUnderstanding leadership experiences: the need for story sharing and feminist literature as a survival manual for leadership
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume21
dcterms.source.number6
dcterms.source.startPage769
dcterms.source.endPage777
dcterms.source.issn09540253
dcterms.source.titleGender and Education
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyCurtin Business School
curtin.facultyGraduate School of Business


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