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An exploratory study of the leadership experiences of senior African female executives in the private sector
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/68863 An exploratory study of the leadership experiences of senior African female executives in the private sector Mthimunye, Zukiswa ichelp@gibs.co.za Khuzwayo, Thabile UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2018. The last twenty-four years has seen the representation of women in top and senior management positions improve. However, black female professionals remain under represented in senior and top management positions in the private sector in South Africa. This study explores the leadership journeys of black female executives who have successfully climbed the corporate ladder in the private sector. Utilising a qualitative approach, data was collected through thirteen semi structured interviews. This study found that black female professonals encounter a number of external and internal barriers on their leadership jouneys and adopt a number of coping stratergies in order to overcome these challenges. Furthermore, these experinces play a role in shaping their personal and professional identities, often equipping them to be better and more effective leaders in their organisations. Finally, for most fitting in with the majority of the social groups with their organisations was a challenge. However being different and not fitting in had postive impact on their leadership effectiveness. Moreover, this required the participants to adopt alternative startegies to gain the respect of their peers and subordinates which, once again made them better leaders. This study achieves its objective of buliding on the literature documenting black African femaleÕs leadership journey however; given the homogenous nature of the sample, the transferability of the learnings across markets, races and genders is limited. zk2019 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA 2019-04-04T10:17:01Z 2019-04-04T10:17:01Z 30-Mar-19 2018 Mini Dissertation Khuzwayo, T 2018, An exploratory study of the leadership experiences of senior African female executives in the private sector, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68863> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68863 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
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| title | An exploratory study of the leadership experiences of senior African female executives in the private sector |
| title_full | An exploratory study of the leadership experiences of senior African female executives in the private sector |
| title_fullStr | An exploratory study of the leadership experiences of senior African female executives in the private sector |
| title_full_unstemmed | An exploratory study of the leadership experiences of senior African female executives in the private sector |
| title_short | An exploratory study of the leadership experiences of senior African female executives in the private sector |
| title_sort | exploratory study of the leadership experiences of senior african female executives in the private sector |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68863 |