| Creators: |
Fritz, Claudia and Van Knippenberg, Daan |
| Title: |
Gender and leadership aspiration: the impact of organizational identification |
| Item Type: |
Article or issue of a publication series |
| Journal or Series Title: |
Leadership & organization development journal : LODJ |
| Page Range: |
pp. 1018-1037 |
| Additional Information: |
Open Access - CC BY 4.0 |
| Date: |
2017 |
| Divisions: |
Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Abstract (ENG): |
Purpose – Although nowadays more women occupy leadership roles, they still are a minority.
Because aspiration is a precursor of advancement, examining conditions fostering female leadership
aspiration is important. A neglected perspective is the impact of organizational identification. Identification
can be argued to foster leadership aspiration because the essence of leadership is the pursuit of collective
interests, and identification motivates such pursuits. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach – A cross-sectional survey design with an n ¼ 400 fulltime employed men
and women, working for various organizations was selected.
Findings – The initial prediction was that identification is more important to women’s leadership aspiration
to the extent that gender is associated with communal orientation, because women tend to have stronger
communal orientation with associated greater affiliation needs, and organizational identification can
be expected to cater to those needs. The communal orientation by organizational identification interactive
influence on leadership aspiration was supported. Also, the indirect effect of gender on leadership aspiration
via this interactive influence of communal orientation and organizational identification was supported.
Research limitations/implications – Due to the selected survey approach the data are correlational and
as a result no reference to matters of causality can be made. Thus ( field) experimental data is needed to
confirm these findings.
Practical implications – Within the paper the discussion focuses on the importance of creating an
environment that is more conducive to organizational identification and as such speaks to the communal
orientation – being more pronounced among women – to act in favor of the organization by aspiring
leadership positions.
Originality/value – The presented results depict an important step toward understanding how
organizational identification and communal orientation interact and how they interact with women’s
leadership aspiration. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
English |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Gender, Organizational identification, Communal orientation, Leadership aspiration |
| Link eMedia: |
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| Citation: |
Fritz, Claudia and Van Knippenberg, Daan
(2017)
Gender and leadership aspiration: the impact of organizational identification.
Leadership & organization development journal : LODJ, 38 (8).
pp. 1018-1037.
ISSN 0143-7739
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