What is personal identity. How is identity formed. What is social identity, with a focus on Tajfel (1979). How does culture impact identity. How does identity impact leadership. How is leadership identity formed, with a focus on Kempster (2009). Identity, salience and self-efficacy (Kempster, 2009)...
Pre-reading:
Zhao, J. & Jones, K. (2017). Women and Leadership in Higher Education in
China: Discourse and the Discursive Construction of Identity.
Interplay between multiple identities
Women’s identities are shaped & constrained by historical & cultural
influences
Women’s identities congruent with social norms & conventions
Female academics reject leader identity
Women required to obey ‘the 3 obedience’s & the 4 virtues
3 obedience’s:
1. Obey father before marriage
2. Obey husband during married life
3. Obey sons in widowhood
4 virtues:
1. Physical charm
2. Fidelity
3. Propriety in speech
4. Efficacy in needlework
People prioritise their identity in different orders
1 women = Good mother Good teacher Good manager
Many believed that a female leader should exert her leadership
charisma through female traits
Multidimensionality of identities
Key theme = women don’t identify as leaders, despite undertaking
roles that involve leadership
Acknowledge the hierarchy of order
Shaped by social norms that we abide by based on our social setting
Identity & leadership
How is identity formed?
Personal Identity
Not fixed state
Identity development = ongoing
Who am I? process that changes over
How should I act? Sense of time/throughout our lives
attachment or Shaped by early childhood
ownership. experiences/ed/work/society/culture
E.G. how we we live in
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