"My father knows the minister". A comparative study of Arab women's attitudes towards leadership authority

Women in Management Review

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 478-497

  Neal, Mark ^a   Finlay, Jay ^b   Tansey, Richard ^c  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leadership; Lebanon; National cultures; Oman; United Arab Emirates; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744557033     PISSN: 09649425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09649420510624729     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Abdalla, I.A. and Al-Homoud, M.A. (2001), "Exploring the implicit leadership theory in the Arabian Gulf states", Applied Psychology: An International Review, Vol. 50 No. 4, pp. 506-31.
2. Abdalla, H.F., Maghrabi, A.S. and Raggad, B.G. (1995), "Assessing the perceptions of human resource managers toward nepotism: A cross-cultural study", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 19 No. 8, pp. 554-70.
3. Abdel-Rahman, O. (1994), The General Manager and the Forty Administrators, Al Rabian Press, Kuwait (in Arabic).
4. Abdul-Karim, A. (1993), "Lebanese business in France", in Hourani, A. and Shehadi, N. (Eds.), The Lebanese in the World, Centre for Lebanese Studies, IB Tauris and Co. Ltd, New York, NY.
5. Al-Lamki, S. (1999), "Paradigm shift: A perspective on Omani women in management in the Sultanate of Oman", Advancing Women in Leadership, Vol. 5, available at: www.advancingwomen.com/awl/spring99/ Al-Lamki/allamk.html.
6. Al-Nami, A.K. (1971), Studies in Ibadhism, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
7. Al-Omar, F. (1997), Bureaucracy, State and Development in Kuwait and Arab Gulf States: A Comparative Study, Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad.
8. Al-Qudsi, S. (1998), "Labour participation of Arab women: Estimates of the fertility to labour supply link", Applied Economics, Vol. 30 No. 7, pp. 931-42.
9. Badawy, M. (1980), "Styles of mideastern managers", California Management Review, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 51-8.
10. Bass, B.M. (1997), "Does the transactional-transformational leadership paradigm transcend organizational and national boundaries?", American Psychologist, Vol. 52 No. 3, pp. 130-9.
11. Darwiche, N. (1999), Women in Arab NGOs, The Arab Network for Non-governmental Organizations, Cairo.
12. Den Hartog, D., House, R.J., Hanges, P.J., Ruiz-Quintanilla, S.A. and Dorfman, P.W. (1999), "Culture specific and cross-culturally generalizable implicit leadership theories: Are attributes of charismatic/transformational leadership universally endorsed?", Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 219-56.
13. De Vaus, D. (2002), Analyzing Social Science Data, Sage, London.
14. Eden, D. and Leviatan, V. (1975), "Implicit leadership theory as a determinant of factor structure underlying supervisory behavior scales", Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 60, pp. 736-41.
15. El-Tayeb, H. (1986), "Administrative reform in Arab Countries", in Al-Saigh, N. (Ed.), Administrative Reform in the Arab world: Readings, Arab Organization of Administrative Sciences, Amman, (in Arabic), pp. 72-90.
16. Gates, C. (1998), The Merchant Republic of Lebanon: Rise of an Open Economy, Centre for Lebanese Studies, IB Tauris and Co Ltd, New York, NY.
17. Guthrie, S. (2001), Arab Women in the Middle Ages: Private Lives and Public Roles, Saqi Books, London.
18. Haddad, R. (2003), "Taking the veil: Reem Haddad on why Lebanese women are covering up", New Internationalist, Vol. 360, p. 3.
19. Hair, J.E., Anderson, R.E. and Tatham, R.L. (1995), Multivariate Data Analysis, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, NY.
20. Hawi, S. (1982), Lectures on Leadership and Leader, Al-Sharq Press, Amman (in Arabic).
21. Hofstede, G. (1980), Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-related Values, Sage, London.
22. Hoschild, A.R. (1989), The Second Shift, Avon Books, New York, NY.
23. House, R.J., Javidan, M. and Dorfman, P. (2001), "Project GLOBE: An introduction", Applied Psychology: An International Review, Vol. 50 No. 4, pp. 489-505.
24. House, R.J., Wright, N. and Aditya, R.N. (1997), "Cross-cultural research on organizational leadership: A critical analysis and a proposed theory", in Earley, P.C. and Erez, M. (Eds.), New Perspectives in International Industrial Organizational Psychology, New Lexington, San Francisco, CA, pp. 535-625.
25. ILO (1998), World Employment Report 1998-1999: Employability in the Global Economy: How Training Matters, International Labour Organization, p. 218.
26. Javidan, M. and Carl, D.E. (2004), "East meets west: A cross-cultural comparison of charismatic leadership among Canadian and Iranian executives", Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 41 No. 4, pp. 665-92.
27. Kenney, R.A., Schwartz-Kenney, B. and Blascovich, J. (1996), "Implicit leadership theories: Defining leaders described as worthy of influence", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 22, pp. 1128-43.
28. Labaki, B. (1993), "Lebanese emigration during the war (1975-1989)", in Hourani, A. and Shehadi, N. (Eds), The Lebanese in the World, I B Tauris and Co. Ltd, Centre for Lebanese Studies, New York, NY.
29. Lord, R.G., Binning, J.F., Rush, M.C. and Thomas, J.C. (1978), "The effect of performance cues and leader behavior on questionnaire ratings of leadership behavior", Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Vol. 21, pp. 27-39.
30. Mamiri, A.H. (1989), Oman and Ibadhism, Lancer Books, New York, NY.
31. Masoud, T.E. (1999), "The Arabs and Islam: The troubled search for legitimacy", Daedalus, Vol. 128 No. 2, pp. 127-47.
32. Mayo, E. (1945), The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization, Ayer, New Hampshire.
33. Mostafa, M.M. (2003), "Attitudes towards women who work in Egypt", Women in Management Review, Vol. 18 No. 5, pp. 252-66.
34. National Family and Parenting Institute (2003), available at: www.nfpi.org.uk.
35. National Statistics (2002), available at: www.statistics.gov.uk.
36. Nauphal, N. (1997), Post-war Lebanon: Women and Other War-affected Groups, International Labour Organization, Geneva.
37. Read, J.G. (2003), "The sources of gender role attitudes among Christian and Muslim Arab-American women", Sociology of Religion, Vol. 64 No. 2, pp. 207-33.
38. Roethlisberger, F. and Dickson, W. (1939), Management and the Worker, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.
39. Ronen, S. (1986), Comparative and Multinational Management, Wiley, New York, NY.
40. Rush, M.G., Thomas, J.C. and Lord, R.G. (1977), "Implicit leadership theory: A potential threat to the internal validity of leader behavior questionnaires", Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Vol. 20, pp. 93-110.
41. Salloum, H. (2003), "Women in the United Arab Emirates", Contemporary Review, Vol. 283, pp. 101-5.
42. UNDP (2002), Arab Human Development Report 2002: Creating Opportunities for Future Generations, United Nations Publications, New York, NY.
43. UNDP (2003), Human Development Report 2003: Building a Knowledge Society, United Nations Publications, New York, NY.
44. Weber, M. (1978), The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, Free Press, New York, NY, (T. Parsons, Trans.).
45. Weir, D. (2000), "Management in the Arab middle east", in Warner, M. (Ed.), Management in Emerging Countries, Thomson Learning, London.
46. Weir, D. (2001), "Management in the Arab World: A fourth paradigm?", paper presented at: Management Research: Trends and Challenges, European Academy of Management Conference, Barcelona, 19-21 April.