Leadership development, gender and race : intersectional insights from South Africa

dc.contributor.authorLewis, Clifford Pierre
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-03T11:54:26Z
dc.date.issued2023-03
dc.description.abstractThis research explores the existence of differential group-level experiences in a South African retail group's leadership development programme (LDP). Primary data were collected with semistructured intersectional focus groups. Findings were triangulated with secondary data from organizational document analysis. Emerging themes were identified with Thematic and Axial coding. Gender- and race identity shape how content, development needs, peer interactions, and support are experienced within the LDP. Additionally, certain findings also contradict existing knowledge of LDPs, such as the prevalence of mistrust between participants in a mixed-group programme. Findings indicate a need for further research to explore the differential effects of intersectional identities on the experience of LDPs. Findings challenge psychologically and behaviourally focused conceptions of leadership development by demonstrating how multiple identities interdependently influence the experience of an LDP. Concurrently, the study challenges existing knowledge of group dynamics within mixed-group development programmes by highlighting essentialist assumptions about gender and race in the context of leadership development. An analysis of the qualitative data also produced the counterintuitive finding that intersecting bases of privilege might actually result in negative outcomes within a learning context. Finally, the study also contributes to the body of knowledge of intersectionality by demonstrating its utility in leadership development research.en_US
dc.description.departmentHuman Resource Managementen_US
dc.description.embargo2024-10-04
dc.description.librarianhj2023en_US
dc.description.urihttps://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ijtden_US
dc.identifier.citationLewis, C. P. (2023). Leadership development, gender and race: Intersectional insights from South Africa. International Journal of Training and Development, 27, 75–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12285.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1360-3736 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1468-2419 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1111/ijtd.12285
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/90547
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rights© 2022 Brian Towers (BRITOW) and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : Leadership development, gender and race: Intersectional insights from South Africa. International Journal of Training and Development, 27, 75–98, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12285. The definite version is available at : https://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ijtd.en_US
dc.subjectLeadership development programme (LDP)en_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectIntersectional focus groupsen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africa (SA)en_US
dc.titleLeadership development, gender and race : intersectional insights from South Africaen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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