Female Leaders and Employee Effort: A Multi-method Study of Entrepreneurial Firms

This manuscript advances prior research (Blau, 1964; Elangovan & Xie, 1999; French & Raven, 1959; Goodstadt & Hjelle, 1973; Hegtvedt, 1988; Randolph & Kemery, 2011; Zigarmi, Peyton Roberts, & Randolph, 2015) and capitalizes on supervisory skills using power dynamics within the workplace, by investigating employee effort resulting from gender dissimilar supervisor-employee dyads and employee locus of control. To offer a more focused approach, this is an evaluation specifically on reward and coercive power derived from French and Raven’s (1959) five power bases. This manuscript proposes that the motivation levels of employees change, based on their locus of control and gender. There were 155 full-time professionals surveyed, this study concluded a positive relationship between the use of reward power and employee effort. Notably, the supplemental analysis indicated a positive relationship between female supervisors who exhibited coercive power and greater employee effort.

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The influence of female leaders on women's implicit stereotypes about their ingroup and self: Investigations in the lab and field

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e633982013-074 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Nilanjana Dasgupta ◽

Shaki Asgari

Keyword(s):

Female Leaders ◽

Implicit Stereotypes

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Rebellious Wallflowers and QueerTangueras: The Rise of Female Leaders in Buenos Aires’ Tango Scene

Dance Research ◽

10.3366/drs.2018.0237 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 173-197

Author(s):

Juliet McMains

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

Female Leaders ◽

Same Sex ◽

Overlapping Communities ◽

Heterosexual Women ◽

Bisexual And Transgender ◽

History Of

This paper interrogates the history of same-sex dancing among women in Buenos Aires' tango scene, focusing on its increasing visibility since 2005. Two overlapping communities of women are invoked. Queer tangueras are queer-identified female tango dancers and their allies who dance tango in a way that attempts to de-link tango's two roles from gender. Rebellious wallflowers are women who practice, teach, perform, and dance with other women in predominantly straight environments. It is argued that the growing acceptance of same-sex dancing in Argentina is due to the confluence of four developments: 1) the rise of tango commerce, 2) innovations of tango nuevo, 3) changing laws and social norms around lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, and 4) synergy between queer tango dancers and heterosexual women who are frustrated by the limits of tango's gender matrix. The author advocates for increased alliances between rebellious wallflowers and queer tangueras, who are often segregated from each other in Buenos Aires' commercial tango industry.

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