Female top leaders – prisoners of gender? The gendering of leadership discourses in Norwegian sports organizations

Hovden, Jorid

doi:10.1080/19406940.2010.488065

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“…The organizational culture of sport organizations that defines the ideal qualities, skills, and behaviors of an employee in terms of masculinity makes it difficult for women to be defined as valuable by employees and managers (Hovden, 2010;Pfister, 2010). For example, the images and discourses associated with management and leadership in sport are infused with masculine traits and characteristics such as toughness, sport playing experience, and instrumentality (Knoppers & Anthonissen, 2008).…”

Section: Attitudes Toward Female Managersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, regarding these arguments, the preference of the participants of the present study for male managers could be attributed to the male-dominated structure of Turkish sport organizations (95% men). In this respect, 'male-dominated network' (Hovden, 2010) may be a factor for the employees' preference for male sport managers and employees' preference for male sport managers may stem from the familiarity with the male culture in Turkish sport organizations. When employees experience a lack of women in upper management, they may form ideas about the implicit values and culture of the organization (Hoobler, Lemmon, & Wayne, 2011).…”

Section: European Sport Management Quarterly 17mentioning

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“…Most of these studies examine the opinions and experiences of managers in sport organizations (Hovden, 2010;Ottesen et al, 2010;Pfister, 2010;Pfister & Radtke, 2009). There has not been enough consideration of the importance of sport organizations, which are accepted as a traditionally male territory, in explaining employees' attitudes toward female managers.…”

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Gendered perceptions about female managers in Turkish sport organizations

Koca

Öztürk

2015

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Research question: This study examines the views of employees working in Turkish sport organizations on the qualities of sport managers, their preference for female or male sport managers, and their attitudes toward female managers.Research methods: A quantitative research design based on the data of 244 female employees and 492 male employees was chosen. Results and findings:The results of the Women as Managers Scale indicated that gender, education, marital status, the preference for female or male sport managers, and the type of organization significantly affected gender role stereotypes and attitudes toward women's career advancement. In addition, the under-representation of women can be partly explained by dominant meanings, which are framed in the sport and sport experience given to a sport manager. Implications: In line with role congruity theory, management in Turkish sport organizations is stereotyped as a masculine domain requiring agentic characteristics and sport experience is more strongly attributed to men. As a result, employees have a general preference for male sport managers and male employees in particular have negative attitudes toward female managers.

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Section: European Sport Management Quarterly 17mentioning

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Gendered perceptions about female managers in Turkish sport organizations

Koca

Öztürk

2015

European Sport Management Quarterly

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“…Dette paradokset antyder at det ser ut til å eksistere noen ledelsesformer som anses som de mest gyldige og suksessrike uavhengig av utøvernes behov og av kontekstuelle variasjoner. Andre studier av mannsdominerte idrettsarenaer (f.eks Claringbould & Knoppers, 2008;Hovden 2000Hovden , 2010 viser at maskuline ledelsesformer her oppfattes som kjønnsnøytrale og generelle, eller det som betegnes som doxisk (Bourdieu, 2000;Bourdieu og Wacquant 1992;1995;, fordi det maskuline naturliggjøres og ikke trenger sosial legitimitet. På trenerarenaen betyr denne dominante oppfatningen at de mannligere trenerne sosialiserer kvinnelige utøvere til å tilpasse seg, akseptere og respektere dominante ledelsesformer, og de dominerende forestillingene om kjønn, boksing og treningsledelse som ligger implisitt i disse (Lafferty og McKay 2004;Wacquant 1992;1995).…”

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Kjønn som sparringspartner - Ledelsesformer og betydninger av kjønn blant norske boksetrenere

Tjønndal¹,

Hovden²

2016

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Sparring with genderLeadership and meanings of gender among Norwegian boxing coaches.Sport is an important symbolic institution in which meanings of gender are constantly framed, expressed and reproduced. The article is based on a qualitative study of leadership forms among Norwegian boxing coaches (both male and female) and how these are influenced by meanings of gender. Our theoretical point of departure is Beauvoir's and Bourdieu's perspectives on how gender as a relation of domination is constructed. The analyses show that male coaches perceived themselves as more autocratic than their female counterparts, while female coaches emphasised a more democratic leadership style. Furthermore, female coaches were often associated with stereotyped femininities such as caring. Both male and female coaches expressed how their gendered bodies influenced their approaches to the athletes and represented limitations as well as possibilities in their coach leadership. The male dominated culture strongly influenced the way sound leadership was conceived and defined. Thus women's approaches to coach leadership were seen as complementary and gendered.Keywords: coach leadership, boxing, gender, power Idrett er en symbolsk institusjon hvor betydninger av kjønn hele tiden er i spill. Denne artikkelen er en studie av hvilke ledelsesformer som benyttes av norske boksetrenere og hvilke betydninger kjønn gis i denne konteksten. Boksing er en maskulin idrett og trenerarenaen er preget av sterk mannsdominans. Artikkelen er basert på kvalitative intervjuer med både mannlige og kvinnelige trenere. Det analytiske rammeverket er hovedsakelig basert på Beauvoirs (2000) og Bourdieus (2000) perspektiver på hvordan kjønn som dominansrelasjon er konstruert og kommer til utrykk. Studien viser at mannlige trenerne oppfatter seg selv som mer autokratiske enn sine kvinnelige kollegaer, mens de kvinnelige trenerne opplever seg selv som mer demokratiske og sosialt støttende. Videre avdekkes det hvordan kroppen som situasjon har stor betydning for hvilke grenser og frihet kvinnelige og mannlige trenere opplever knyttet til sine ledelsespraksiser. Trenernes oppfatninger og ledelsespraksiser avdekker også hvilke utfordringer og muligheter trenerne møter i et mannsdominert handlingsrom. Blant annet blir kvinners erfaringer og behov betraktet som spesielle og kjønnede, og dermed ikke som gyldige til å inkluderes i god treningsledelse.

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“…Therefore, the industry thrives with the opportunities for administrative and leadership positions, nevertheless women remain significantly not well represented in leadership positions within sport organizations (Coakley, 2009;Hovden, 2010;Reinhold, 2005;Strawbridge, 2000), Evans (2011) affirmed that in the non-sport business sector, a total of 51.5% working women hold management positions, professional or administrative positions while women only hold 34% of all administrative careers in collegiate athletics, 19.3% of athletic director jobs nationally, and fewer than 9% of the athletic director positions at the Division I level. Burton, Grappendorf, and Henderson (2011) said that this style of disparity truly cut across many other administrative positions in a variation of sport settings.…”

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Gender Distribution among Administrative Positions in Ondo and Osun States Sports Councils

Alla¹,

Akinnubi²

2017

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This study investigated possible discrimination against female occupying higher administrative positions in two state sports councils. The study specifically identified the ratio of men to women in decision making, whether female occupying higher administrative positions are being discriminated against, factors hindering women from occupying higher administrative positions and possible solutions to encourage women to desire higher administrative positions in sports councils all with a view of determining gender distribution among administrative positions in the two States Sports Councils. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population for this study comprised all the staff members of the two States Sports Councils. Purposive sampling technique was applied to select twenty-five (25) respondents from each state making a total of fifty (50) respondents from the two states sports councils. The questionnaire consisted of two sections. Section A dealt with the biodata while section B categorized into five sections generated the data used for the study. The data collected were analyzed

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Female top leaders – prisoners of gender? The gendering of leadership discourses in Norwegian sports organizations

Cited by 71 publications

References 13 publications

Gendered perceptions about female managers in Turkish sport organizations

Gendered perceptions about female managers in Turkish sport organizations

Kjønn som sparringspartner - Ledelsesformer og betydninger av kjønn blant norske boksetrenere

Gender Distribution among Administrative Positions in Ondo and Osun States Sports Councils

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