The Role of Women's Leadership Capabilities on Organizational Performance and Sustainable Development Through Probing the Impacts of Cultural Psychology
Subject Areas : Psychology
Malihe Charkhab
1
,
Mohammad Gholamifar
2
1 - PhD, Department of Educational Management, Institute of Education, Khuzestan, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - MSc, Department of Accounting, Faculty of Accounting, National Southern Oil Fields Company Research Institute, Ahvaz, Iran
Keywords: Women's leadership capabilities, Organizational performance, Sustainable development, Cultural psychology,
Abstract :
The undergone study intended to investigate the role of women's leadership capabilities on organizational performance and sustainable development through probing the impacts of cultural psychology. The research universe encompassed all the scientific articles published in women's leadership capabilities scope during the last decade. The sample enfolded 44 articles of the mentioned universe. The research imposed qualitative meta-synthesis approach. To collect data Sandelowski and Barroso framework (200) was applied. Firstly, all the scientific articles considering the related topics were specified, then all the data were extracted and coded as topics and themes. The results indicated that the women owned a considerable organizational leadership capabilities and the occupation of management positions by women not only improved the organizational performance but also caused positive promotion in organizational culture and sustainable development. Specially the impacts of cultural psychology on women's leadership capabilities and apprehension revealed the necessity of paying more attention to social and cultural restrictions. Hence all the research recommended that to enhance women's leadership capabilities and to improve the organizational performance, social and cultural structures needed to be changed radically.
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