Understanding Women in Leadership from the Inside: An Analogical Representation from a Phenomenological Lens

Abstract

Women in leadership positions around the world face personal and professional obstacles which distinguish them individually since their phenomenological experiences are unique. These subjective experiences shape their social interactions and leadership practices, and this concept is developed with the help of an iceberg analogy, highlighting the surface above the iceberg (material, physical, and objective place) as a woman’s outer world where she interacts and exerts leadership practices and the bottom (mental and phenomenological space) as her mental state which is filled with subjective experiences built by personal and societal barriers created in the outside world. The analogy implicates a need for effective leadership and communication development practices to prevent barriers from transpiring and urges institutions to foster and promote women and leadership scholarship.

Presenters

Sakshi Bhati
PhD in Leadership Communication, Journalism and Mass Communications, Kansas State University, Kansas, United States

Details

Presentation Type

Poster Session

Theme

2021 Special Focus—The Data Galaxy: The Un-Making of Typographic Man?

KEYWORDS

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP, ICEBERG TYPOGRAPHY, PHENOMENOLOGICAL TRADITION OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION