Rethinking women's leadership development: Voices from the Trenches

Artikel

As recent graduates of a women's-only leadership development program in higher education in the United States, we used autoethnography as a research methodology to provide critical insight into effective women's leadership programming and evaluation. The potential of this methodology as both a learning process and product helped elucidate two key findings: (1) to effectively develop women leaders, work must be done at the personal, interpersonal, and organizational levels, as these levels are interrelated and interdependent; and (2) women's multiple identities must be engaged. Therefore, relationship-building should be a central learning outcome and facilitated through program curricula, pedagogical methods, and evaluation. Including autoethnography as a program evaluation methodology fills a gap in the literature on leadership development, and supports our goal of making meaning of our personal experiences in order to enhance women's leadership development.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Administrative Sciences ; ISSN: 2076-3387 ; Volume: 7 ; Year: 2017 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-20 ; Basel: MDPI

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Subject: women's leadership ; leadership program evaluation ; gender equity ; intersectionality ; identity ; higher education ; career advancement

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Selzer, Robin ; Howton, Amy ; Wallace, Felicia
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): MDPI
• (where): Basel
• (when): 2017

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.3390/admsci7020018
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/239796
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET