The 33rd EGOS Colloquium in Copenhagen offers a bridge to discussions concerning the aspirations, interventions and struggles for The Good Organization. We consider The Good Organization both a tempting prospect and a project inherently ridden with tensions.
Nyla Aleem Ansari is a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) student at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM)) and an assistant professor with a post-graduate diploma in the Human Resource Management Program at the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, Pakistan.
She has received a research grant from GEM and will attend the 33rd EGOS Colloquium in Copenhagen, Denmark. She will present her paper co-written with Séverine Leloarne: Proposing an embodied ethical approach of women leadership through the philosophy of Michel Foucault: A model based on the case of women top managers in Pakistan.
Outline
This paper points out the limits of existing theories of women leadership and searches to complete the literature on women leadership. For that matter, we refer to the thought of the French Philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984).
Here we propose a model of development of women leaders who developed their capacity to gain power in their professional relationships (mostly against and thanks to male leaders) and, consequently, succeeded to become top-managers in organizations.
We test and illustrate this model through the story of women in Pakistan who succeeded to gain to position of top managers within the banking and service industries.
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