Let their voices be heard: exploring female educational leaders’ crisis management skills and reliance on inclusive leadership amidst the Covid-19 pandemic in Higher Education Institutions in the UK

Meletiadou, Eleni (2022) Let their voices be heard: exploring female educational leaders’ crisis management skills and reliance on inclusive leadership amidst the Covid-19 pandemic in Higher Education Institutions in the UK. In: British Academy of Management Conference 2022, 31 August – 2 September 2022, Manchester. (In Press)

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The current study explores the concepts and enactment of leadership and crisis management from the female leader’s perspective since very few studies, if any, have explored whether inclusive leadership can help educational institutions when they must face unprecedented challenges in terms of crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Through assisted thematic analyses of 40 female educational leaders’ oral responses to questions regarding how they have led during the Covid-19 crisis, the current study investigates whether they relied on inclusive leadership to help their universities exit this unprecedented crisis. The study revealed that these women exercised inclusive transformational leadership and provided considerable support to their followers during the Covid-19 crisis leading them through the crisis as well as managing the response. The study provides recommendations for Higher Education Institutions, HR professionals and leadership teams to support female educational leaders and foster diversity and inclusion.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	female educational leaders; crisis management; Covid-19; Higher Education; diversity; inclusion
Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 370 Education
Department:	Guildhall School of Business and Law
Depositing User:	Eleni Meletiadou
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2022 10:08
Last Modified:	05 Sep 2022 10:08
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/7889

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