2020
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2020.1802407
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‘Leadership is a sacred matter’: women leaders contesting and contextualising neoliberal meritocracy in the Indonesian academia

Abstract: Feminist scholars have critiqued neoliberal meritocracy as discriminating against female academics through the persistence of gender-biased assumptions, closed procedures of recruitment and promotion, and patriarchal network connections. While these scholars demand fairer meritocratic competition, we explore possibilities to (re)imagine academic career and university leadership beyond the dominant discourse of neoliberal meritocracy. Based on interviews with female deans in Indonesian universities, we identifi… Show more

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“…Of the 485 articles found, six of them discussed various aspects of the merit system in Indonesia, including leadership, especially female leaders at Indonesian universities (Sakhiyya & Locke, 2019;Wijaya Mulya & Sakhiyya, 2021); police corruption in Indonesia, and four other Asian countries (Quah, 2019); patronage practice of local head election in 2015 (Ngusmanto, 2016); horror film about people's beliefs that are unruly but seem meritocratic (Harvey, 2008); and organizational management model for civil servants (Febriansyah & Athory Ramdlany, 2016). Of these six articles, only one was published more than ten years, while the other five were published in the last ten years.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Of the 485 articles found, six of them discussed various aspects of the merit system in Indonesia, including leadership, especially female leaders at Indonesian universities (Sakhiyya & Locke, 2019;Wijaya Mulya & Sakhiyya, 2021); police corruption in Indonesia, and four other Asian countries (Quah, 2019); patronage practice of local head election in 2015 (Ngusmanto, 2016); horror film about people's beliefs that are unruly but seem meritocratic (Harvey, 2008); and organizational management model for civil servants (Febriansyah & Athory Ramdlany, 2016). Of these six articles, only one was published more than ten years, while the other five were published in the last ten years.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The notion that leadership is a responsibility to God (amanah) and a mode of motherhood does not always fit with the Western liberal construction of leadership that assumes the self as autonomous (Fairhurst & Connaughton, 2014). The concept of amanah centralizes spirituality, moral responsibility, and accountability to God (Wijaya Mulya & Sakhiyya, 2021).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Their argument was based on the fact that trust allows leaders more attentional resources to be devoted to accomplishing the job. Similarly, Al-amanah requires leaders to hold responsibility for the leadership position by justly allocating the tasks and facilitating the team efforts to achieve the shared objective (Wijaya Mulya and Sakhiyya, 2021; Zaim et al, 2022). Therefore, the following hypothesis is proposed.…”
Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%