Women in sport leadership positions in Malaysia: issues and challenges
Leadership is the process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing common set goals, and it can also be defined as the ability of an individual to establish direction for a working group of individuals who gain commitment from this group of members to this direction and who then motiva...
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Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia
2019
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| author | Aman, Mirian Pabatao Hanapi, Suharyanti Yusof, Aminuddin Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar Omar Dev, Roxana Dev |
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| description | Leadership is the process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing common set goals, and it can also be defined as the ability of an individual to establish direction for a working group of individuals who gain commitment from this group of members to this direction and who then motivate these members to achieve the direction’s outcomes. Leadership, however, requires neither gender qualifications nor someone with communal or agentic characteristics but one with instinct potential to fulfil responsibilities. The purpose of the current study was to investigate how women leaders perceive the underrepresentation of women in top sport leadership positions in Malaysia. Guided by an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach, data were collected through in-depth, face to face semi structured interviews, observations and document analysis involving seven women leaders in national sport organizations. The findings showed that women were underrepresented in top leadership positions and the subjects revealed perceived barriers which they believe impede women’s ascend in top leadership positions. These barriers include personal limitations which include self-limiting behaviors and work-life conflict among women; sociocultural factors consisting of traditional practices and society’s perceptions; and organizational factors consisting of all-men’s network, gender discrimination and conflict among women. It was concluded that the underrepresentation of women sport leaders is a vicious cycle where there is a chain of events in which the response to one difficulty creates a new problem that intensify and aggravate the original situation. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-768522020-02-06T01:34:44Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/76852/ Women in sport leadership positions in Malaysia: issues and challenges Aman, Mirian Pabatao Hanapi, Suharyanti Yusof, Aminuddin Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar Omar Dev, Roxana Dev Leadership is the process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing common set goals, and it can also be defined as the ability of an individual to establish direction for a working group of individuals who gain commitment from this group of members to this direction and who then motivate these members to achieve the direction’s outcomes. Leadership, however, requires neither gender qualifications nor someone with communal or agentic characteristics but one with instinct potential to fulfil responsibilities. The purpose of the current study was to investigate how women leaders perceive the underrepresentation of women in top sport leadership positions in Malaysia. Guided by an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach, data were collected through in-depth, face to face semi structured interviews, observations and document analysis involving seven women leaders in national sport organizations. The findings showed that women were underrepresented in top leadership positions and the subjects revealed perceived barriers which they believe impede women’s ascend in top leadership positions. These barriers include personal limitations which include self-limiting behaviors and work-life conflict among women; sociocultural factors consisting of traditional practices and society’s perceptions; and organizational factors consisting of all-men’s network, gender discrimination and conflict among women. It was concluded that the underrepresentation of women sport leaders is a vicious cycle where there is a chain of events in which the response to one difficulty creates a new problem that intensify and aggravate the original situation. Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/76852/1/ICERP2019-25.pdf Aman, Mirian Pabatao and Hanapi, Suharyanti and Yusof, Aminuddin and Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar and Omar Dev, Roxana Dev (2019) Women in sport leadership positions in Malaysia: issues and challenges. In: 5th International Conference on Educational Research and Practice (ICERP) 2019, 22-23 Oct. 2019, Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia. (pp. 583-591). |
| spellingShingle | Aman, Mirian Pabatao Hanapi, Suharyanti Yusof, Aminuddin Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar Omar Dev, Roxana Dev Women in sport leadership positions in Malaysia: issues and challenges |
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| title_short | Women in sport leadership positions in Malaysia: issues and challenges |
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