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Closing the leadership circle: Building and testing a contingent theory of servant leadershipLemoine, Gerald James 21 September 2015 (has links)
Servant leadership focuses on stakeholder concern and follower development and empowerment. It has begun to emerge as a useful perspective of leadership within academic research, but theoretical development remains limited, and some of its key propositions have not been tested. In this dissertation I build and test a theory of how servant leadership works, why it works, and when it works. Drawing on the extant servant leadership literature, a social learning perspective, and research on gender roles and schemas, I propose a conceptual definition and theory of how servant leadership impacts two characteristics of followers (prosocial motivation and psychological capital) to affect distal outcomes including voice and performance. I also test servant leadership's impact on the spread of servant leadership behaviors to followers, a key proposition of servant leadership for nearly fifty years which has never been empirically tested. Further, I propose gender and gender schemas as potential moderators of servant leadership, arguing that the more communal emphasis of this approach may interact with sex role factors to impact its effectiveness, such that females may actually have an advantage in using servant leadership, as opposed to the implicit masculine advantage in other leadership behaviors.
To answer these research questions, I conducted a temporally lagged multi-organizational study testing the mediators, moderators, and outcomes of servant leadership. Using a variance decomposition approach to clustered and cross-level interactions in an HLM framework, I find substantial support for my theoretical predictions. Results support the idea that exposure to servant leadership behaviors is associated with all three performance outcomes, including an employee's own enactment of servant leadership, both directly and through the mediating effects of positive psychological capital. These effects were contingent as hypothesized, such that servant leadership was more powerful when used by a female manager, and when experienced by individuals with high female gender schemas. Theoretical and practical implications of these conclusions, as well as future research suggested by these results, are discussed.
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Stereotyped Gender Role Perceptions And Presentations In Elementary Schooling: A Case Study In Burdur (2001-2002)Kaya, Havva Eylem 01 January 2003 (has links) (PDF)
A schooling system that claims to offer its students the opportunities to develop their
talents and help towards self-determination in their adult lives might be expected to
have a career structure itself that demonstrated these virtues, one in which there was
equality of the genders in positions of influence and leadership, and no gender
stereotyping of roles. Apart from the fairness and consistency of that expectation, it
is also reasonable to expect the neutral template of teacher employment and textbook
selection in schools.
Many children may grow up with few books in their homes but lots of those in their
schools. Many of the textbooks used in elementary schools, according to recent
studies, contain gender stereotypes. In these, females are rarely found as central
characters and when they appear at all, they are often passive figures dependent on
male characters. Women are frequently shown in domestic roles / in most textbooks it
is assumed that only males ' / go out to work' / whereas daughters are the best helpers of
their mothers whose sons are allowed to do what they wish.
In the light of those allegations, this research is designed as a case study which
addresses itself to the aim of looking into stereotyped gender role presentations
existing in elementary school textbooks used by the students studying at 1st-5th
grades in 2001/2002 academic year of an elementary school placed in Burdur and to
see whether these students are affected by the exposure of those stereotyped gender
role presentations. For this purpose, the textbooks being studied are analyzed
according to pre-set categories to deduce how they include stereotyped gender role
presentations and the evaluation of the effects of that exposure on students are made
by asking 1st-3rd grade students to draw and 4th-5th grade students to write
compositions on a given topic.
This study also attempts to find out both whether Turkish elementary school teachers
teaching at 1st-5th grades are aware of stereotyped gender role presentations in those
textbooks that they use and their own points of view about stereotyped gender role
presentations via interviews carried out with them. In conclusion, stereotyped gender
role presentations are encountered in those analyzed school textbooks studied at 1st-
5th grades in 2001/2002 academic year of the elementary school placed in Burdur and
the perceptions of those presentations are also obtained in the drawn and written
productions of the students studied at the same school. Through the teachers' / interviews, various kinds of perceptions towards gender role concept and its
stereotyped presentations that take place in those textbooks are observed in their
sayings
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Nível de satisfação com a vida de atletas segundo sexo, perfil psicológico de gênero e status social subjetivo nas modalidades esportivas / Level of satisfaction with the live of athletes according to sex, psychological profile and subjective social status in sportsVieira, Mariluce Poerschke 29 June 2015 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2015-06-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente estudo teve como principal intuito avaliar uma possível associação entre o nível de satisfação com a vida de atletas catarinenses do sexo masculino e feminino, com a satisfação pelo esporte, o status social subjetivo, os esquemas de gênero do autoconceito e o perfil idiocêntrico-alocêntrico nas modalidades esportivas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa não probabilística, descritiva, exploratória, quali-quantitativa com delineamento transversal. Participaram deste estudo 529 atletas catarinenses distribuídos em 10 modalidades individuais e 04 coletivas, sendo 307 do sexo masculino com média de idade de 21,51 anos e 222 do sexo feminino, com média de idade de 20,37 anos. Como instrumentos foram utilizados questionários, com informações sobre as situações sociodemográficas, econômicas e esportivas dos atletas, incluindo o nível de satisfação com a vida e satisfação com o esporte. A Escala MacArthur de Status Social Subjetivo versão para jovens, o Inventário Masculino dos Esquemas de Gênero do Autoconceito Masculino e Feminino (IMEGA e IFEGA) e, por último, o Perfil Idiocêntrico-Alocêntrico foram aplicados. Os dados foram analisados por meio de análises descritivas, freqüência absoluta e relativa, média e desvio padrão. Além dessas, foram utilizados o teste U de Mann-Whitney e o Quiquadrado, com um nível de significância de 5% para todas as análises. Os resultados apontam que, tanto nas modalidades individuais, como nas coletivas, a maioria dos atletas catarinenses apresentou um nível alto de satisfação com a vida e com o esporte que praticam, em especial, os atletas do sexo masculino. Em ambas as modalidades, percebem suas famílias com um status elevado perante a comunidade, percebem-se com um status médio no clube, mas gostariam de estar em um status mais elevado na equipe. Além disso, há uma predominância do perfil isoesquemático, principalmente no sexo masculino, tanto nas modalidades individuais como nas coletivas. E, no que diz respeito ao perfil idiocêntrico-alocêntrico, nas modalidades individuais há um predomínio do perfil heteroalocêntrico em ambos os sexos, mas nas modalidades coletivas, há uma predominância maior do perfil isocêntrico no sexo masculino e do heteroalocêntrico no sexo feminino. Por fim, os resultados mostram que, o nível de satisfação com a vida está associado com: o nível de satisfação com o esporte, o status social subjetivo na família e o perfil idiocêntrico-alocêntrico. Diante disso conclui-se que, embora haja uma predominância de determinados perfis, não é possível definir um perfil ideal para os atletas. A partir destes resultados, sugerem-se novos estudos com esta temática para uma melhor compreensão das variáveis, as quais podem auxiliar os técnicos, psicólogos e dirigentes das equipes na busca de um melhor rendimento do atleta como um todo em termos físico, técnico, tático e psicológico.
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