RT Article
T1 Female Leadership Styles: Insights from Catholic Women Religious on Leading through Compassion
JF Pastoral psychology
VO 67
IS 5
SP 505
OP 513
A1 Fiebig, Jennifer N.
A1 Christopher, Jennifer
LA English
PB Springer Science Business Media B. V.
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1584758562
AB This study focuses on the intersection of Catholic women religious (sisters) and their leadership practices and styles in order to examine traits that can be attributed to effective leadership. In contrast to previous studies that only distributed questionnaires, the researchers interviewed, had verbal conversations with, and transcribed the personal narratives of 119 Catholic women religious. The descriptive as well as qualitative results indicated that these women possessed significant leadership responsibilities, exhibited compassion toward others, guided people to experience personal growth, acted as role models, and aided in creating solutions to social justice issues. The women religious predominantly practiced transformational and servant leadership styles. The findings from these women religious can be applied and extrapolated to the general workforce. Effective leadership should include both transformational as well as servant leadership traits. These traits, often viewed as feminine skills, may be necessary attributes for exceptional leaders.
K1 Catholic
K1 female leadership
K1 Sisters
K1 Transformational and servant leadership styles
K1 women religious
DO 10.1007/s11089-018-0829-x