Unveiling Women’s Leadership : Identity and meaning of leadership in India /: Identity and meaning of leadership in India. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Payal Kumar.
• Editors: Kumar, Payal
• Contents: THEME ONE: SELF IDENTITY, NATURE AND NATURE; 1. Women and Leadership: A Neuro-Social Point of View; SOCIAL CONDITIONING (NOT THE BRAIN!) LIMITS PROGRESS; Dr Bruce Hiebert; 2. Political Participation and Women's Leadership; SUBORDINATION AS AN IMPETUS FOR CHANGE?; Sriparna Ganguly Chaudhuri; 3. Confronting Paradox: Exploring Mentoring Relationships as a Catalyst for Understanding the Strength and Resilience of Professional Indian Women; JUGGLING MODERNITY WITH THE TRADITIONAL; Stacy Blake-Beard, Ph.D; 4. Women in Joint Liability Groups: Do They Take Risks or Innovate?; NO RISK, NO GAIN; Ajeesh Sebastian; THEME TWO: THE COST OF LEADERSHIP ON THE SELF; 5. I picked up a fight, and became a leader!; Fighting for change takes its toll; Rina Mukherji; 6. Is Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Curtailing Women's Growth?; LAW HAS NO TEETH, UNLESS IT IS IMPLEMENTED; Poornima Hatti and Shruti Vidyasagar; 7. Gender Discrimination in the Boardroom; ONE STEP AHEAD, TWO STEPS BEHIND; Neha Verma; THEME THREE: INTERPLAY BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND AGENCY; 8. Women Heralding Change; The Feminine Way of Journalism; Ela R Bhatt; 9. Attaining Leadership through Transformational Interventions; REDEFINING LEADERSHIP; Seema Baquer and Monica Ramesh; 10. Searching for the elusive glass ceiling in higher education; LEADERSHIP ROLES IN INDIA'S LAW SCHOOLS; Dr V S Elizabeth; 11. Mobile Applications: A Game Changer for Rural Women Entrepreneurs?; MOBILES, NOT IT, ARE THE KEY TO CHANGE; Nalini Srinivasan; 12. Looking ahead: the feminisation of leadership; COLLECTIVE SOCIETY: BOON OR BANE?; Dr Neha Chatwani; 13. A Study of women as Panchayat leaders in Bihar; INTERPLAY BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND AGENCY; Smita Agarwal; 14. How difficult is it to treat woman lawyers equally in an Indian law firm?; The power of perception can be contained; Harish Narasappa; 15. A struggle for equality in the private realm of Family Law; THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL; Dr Sarasu Esther Thomas;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages), (4 illustrations)
• Subjects: Workplace Culture; Leadership; Women in Business; International/General; Business & management; Organizational theory & behaviour; Management & management techniques; Economics, finance, business & management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137547057; 1137547057
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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