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Planning, Promoting and Assessing Social Learning in Sport: A Landscapes of Practice ApproachKraft, Erin 15 April 2021 (has links)
In recent years, there has been an increase in women securing leadership positions across Canadian sport. However, when compared with their male counterparts, there continues to be an imbalance of women in these roles. The purpose of this doctoral dissertation was to evaluate a social learning initiative implemented in the province of Alberta to address these existing gender disparities by increasing gender equity, leadership development/diversity, and knowledge transfer across sport systems. The Alberta Women in Sport Leadership Impact Program (AWiSL) was framed using Wenger’s (1998) concept Communities of Practice and consisted of 12 sport leaders (from various PSOs, clubs, and other sport organizations) and six mentors (with leadership expertise). Each sport leader planned and implemented a project in their home sport organizations to support the increase of gender equity and leadership development/diversity. The mentors were responsible for supporting the sport leaders in achieving their project goals and facilitating leadership development opportunities to inspire growth in the sport leaders. Accordingly, an evaluation was conducted using the Value Creation Framework (Wenger-Trayner et al., 2011) to examine the perceived value of participating in this social learning initiative. Data were collected over a year and a half period, from the 18 members who made up the AWiSL group and other important stakeholders. The data included in-depth interviews, informal conversations, observations, surveys, and collecting organizational documents resulting in over 700 pages of transcribed data.
The findings are presented in four articles and an additional findings section. The first article focuses on one of the sport leader’s projects which aimed to foster a collaborative women-only training program for 10 women to become certified coach developers. The second article examines the development of the AWiSL mentors’ social learning leadership capabilities during their first attempt at facilitating a CoP to promote gender equity and leadership development/diversity, through an action learning approach. The third article delves into the sport leaders’ perceptions of their leadership skill development through their participation in the two and a half year social learning initiative, specifically a CoP of femininity. Finally, the fourth article highlights the 12 sport leaders’ projects to examine the impacts of the AWiSL in terms of moving gender equity forward across the province. The additional findings section touches on the knowledge transfer outcome of the AWiSL, including the development of a how-to model for organizations wishing to implement a similar initiative and the overall perceived value of this initiative. The dissertation is concluded with a general discussion highlighting the theoretical contributions and practical implications, along with future recommendations for research.
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Exploring the underrepresentation of women in senior leadership positions at public universities of South EthiopiaTafano Ouke Labiso 07 June 2021 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to explore the causes of underrepresentation of women in
senior leadership positions of public universities in south Ethiopia. There were few or no
women in senior leadership positions in these public universities. Therefore, these
universities could not enjoy the benefits of leadership qualities of women. To achieve the
aforementioned purpose, the vice-presidents, deans and/or directors of public universities
in south Ethiopia were involved as the target population. Four public universities:
Wachamo, Wolaita Sodo, Dilla and Hawassa were involved as research sites. Four vicepresidents
(one from each university), twelve deans and academic directors (three from
each university) who constituted a focus group of four participants from each of the four
universities, participated in the study. An exploratory multiple case study design was used
in this qualitative study.
The purposive sampling technique was used for the selection of the samples.
Unstructured interviews were conducted with the vice-presidents of the selected
universities and focus group discussions were held with college deans and directors.
Participant observation was conducted on issues related to women empowerment at
universities under study. The findings showed that women were greatly underrepresented
in senior academic leadership positions at all the selected public universities of south
Ethiopia because of various institutional, women-related, economic, socio-cultural, and
political- legal factors.
The study identified some gaps in the government’s oversight role of monitoring and
evaluating the implementation of women empowerment policies at universities prescribed
by the Federal Government including the higher education legislation. Moreover, higher
education institutions (HEIs) themselves have also failed to empower women through
different mechanisms. Therefore, it could be concluded that HEIs pay little attention to
empowerment of women. Currently, there are some initiatives meant to empower women.
However, these, seem to a reaction to pressure by the higher political authorities. It could
be concluded that women are still illiterate about their rights and are not keen to be
empowered. Negative societal attitudes and lack of attractive incentives for the leadership
positions contribute to the underrepresentation of women in senior positions.
Furthermore, a shortage of teaching staff in academe plays a negative role in this
underrepresentation.
Finally, it is recommended that the government, society, institutions, and women
themselves should step up efforts to empower women, particularly their appointment to
senior leadership positions. This is critical as they constitute half of the population of both
the institutions and the country. Finally, the study proposes a model that could be adopted
by the government, HEIs and different institutions to improve the empowerment of
women, especially their appointment to senior leadership positions in HEIs. / Educational Management and Leadership / Ph. D. (Education Management)
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