Transcript Women and Management and Their Role in Economic Development

Developing Women’s Leadership
Capability in the Pubic Sector in the
Middle East
Dr Beverly Dawn Metcalfe
Professor International HRM and Development
Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)
School of Environment and Development
University of Manchester
Editorial Member Human Resource Development International
University of Manchester 26 in University World Rankings
IDPM Number 1 in UK for International Development in UK Research
Assessment of Excellence Exercise 2005-2008
Aims of Paper
• To review women's leadership development
in Arab states
• Suggest HR strategies for developing
women's leadership role in public
administration and improving public sector
performance
• Partnership model for learning leadership
and development- international agencies,
government, private institutions, transnational
organizations, and women's organizations
Valuing and Developing
Women's Capabilities
• I believe strongly in the
rights of women. My
mother is a woman. My
sister is a woman. My
daughter is a woman.
My wife is a woman
• (King Abdallah, 2005
Interview with Barbara
Walters)
Women's Leadership:
Public and Private
• ‘A common interest that unites
men and women… it is one
world, one life….for such will
be our ruin, if men, in the
immensity of their public
abstractions forget the private
figure, or if we women in the
intensity of private emotions
forget the public world’
Partnership with Men
• (Virginia Woolf, A Room of
One’s Own, 1929)
Globalisation and Women's
Development
• Globalisation increased opportunities for
women in public sphere
• Participation of women in labour force
has risen substantially in most global
regions since 1990’s.
• Education attainment increased in Arab
states, especially Gulf
Global Challenges for Talent
Management
• Judy Rosner
Tom Peters
relationship building
consideration,
communication,
empathy
• Sharing decision
making appropriate for
social and economic
harmony
• Building trusting
relationship
• Practice humility and an
ethics of care
• Promotion and retention
of female talent is
essential for competitive
advantage in global
communities
Women's Development in KSA
• Princess Adelah, daughter of King Abdullah,
• “Saudi women must have the opportunity to
participate in social development, at every level”
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• “The King –wants the role of women as active
members of society and partners in business
increased. He believes that a capable woman
honours her father, brother and son”.
Women's Progress
King Abdallah
invested in women's
education and
development
Princess
Noura
bint Abdulrahman
University,
Women's Achievements in Education and Politics
• Women outnumber men
in university entrants
and as graduates
• King Saud University
leading University in
Gulf States. Women on
consultative council
• KAUST University will
provide new education
curriculum's for women
in science and
engineering
• HRH Lolowah AlFaisal Vice-Chair of the
Board of Trustees and
General Supervisor of
Effat University
• Princess Al-Jowhara
bint Fahd ibn
Muhammad as Head of
the largest Women's
University in Riyadh,
the first woman ever to
be given such a senior
post
Women's Leadership Development and
National HRD Planning
• Partnership
relationship
• Multi-agency
framework
• (Metcalfe and Rees,
2005)
• National HRD Planning
• National women's
development strategy
• Specialised women's
unit
• Consultation with
women's organizations
Promoting Women's Development
• Institutional development
• Development plan for
women
• Curriculum reviews of
tertiary and university
education to match
labour market needs
• HRD Fund to assist
women's education and
development
• CCI to assist in
professional skills
development
Competitive Benefits of Women in
Public Administration
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Extend business operations
Encourage employee loyalty
Attract wide range of candidates
Reduce absenteeism
Retain valued employees
Increase in motivation and productivity
Initiatives enabled through institutional and
government support
Governance and Development
UK Initiatives
• Incorporate gender
perspectives in
policy planning and
development
• Promotion of
work/life balance
• National childcare
strategy
• Harriet QC MP
Leader of the
House of
Commons
Partnership Model For Developing Female
Leadership and Empowerment
Women,
Development
& HR
Systems in
Organization
Government
Individual
International
Agencies
Developing Female Leadership
a) Systems premised on incorporating gender in HR
benchmarking tool
Women,
Development
& HR Systems
in
Organizations
b) Women only leadership programmes and provision of
Government
International
access
to mentor and Individual
coaches
Agencies
c) Collaborations with local Chambers of Commerce
d) Facilitation of women’s networks for professional skills
e) Collaboration with global partners (for example Booz
and company and Saudi Telecom Aspen Institute
Leadership).
f) Recruitment monitoring statistics to track women’s
development
g) Family friendly HR policies
Developing Female Leadership
a) Legislative framework to include gender planning
Government
b) Where appropriate establishment of women’s ministries
or units
to manage women's
issues in publicInternational
policy
Women,
Individual
Agencies
c)Development
Ensure all ministries have national HRD plan
for women
HRskill
Systems
in&key
areas such as technology, ICT and finance and
in
other professional
sectors
Organizations
d) Ongoing strategy for political empowerment of women
e) Provide enabling mechanisms for entrepreneurship
support, financial start up and credit counselling
g) Collaboration with civil society organizations and
development
Developing Female Leadership
Individual
a) Women participate in professional networks both
local and international to demonstrate commitment to
skills
development Government
Women,
International
Development
Agencies
& HR Systems
b) Embrace
lifelong learning, plan your career and take
in
opportunities for all learning and education opportunities
Organizations
c) Lead and participate in voluntary and community
organizations to assist individual and societal
development
d) Cultivate and project confidence
Developing Female Leadership
Agencies such as the UN and ILO who have a human
development focus can work in partnership with
government:
International
Agencies
Women,
Government
Individual
a) Promote women's agendas in global HR systems
Development
& HR Systems
b) Encourage
employment of qualified local women in
in
senior decision making roles
Organizations
c) Support women’s networking and professional
development
d) Sponsor women’s further education and professional
development- ASPEN, Worldwide Initiative
Empowering Women in the Middle East
Transnational Strategies
‘While mentors are
important for all
organizational
members, they are
essential for
women’
Dorothy Perrin Moore
• TNC’s
• Use role models as
examples to
motivate and inspire
• Networks
• Promote/value
women’s potential
Women's Leadership Programme
Contents
• Assertiveness
• Manage
professional image
• Managing career
• Self-reflection and
self-reflexivity
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HR Systems
Mentor/coaching
Maternity provisions
Part time/flexible
working
Public Leadership
Case Examples- UK
• Public Women's
leadership
programmes
• Family friendly
• Coaching
• Mentor Programmes
• Networks
Female Leadership
• ‘By valuing diversity of leadership styles,
organizations will find strength and
flexibility to survive in a highly competitive
increasingly diverse economic
environment’
Judy Rosener, 1990, Ways Women
Lead, Harvard Business Review
Feminine Becoming?
• ‘If you treat people as they are, you will be
instrumental in keeping them as they are.
If you treat people as they could be, you
will help them become what they ought to
be’ (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
• What is a WOMAN ?
ALL THAT YOU LET HER BECOME
Developing Women for Public Roles
Uniting Global and Local Perspectives
• We should keep an open mind and borrow the
good from other cultures... There should be a
process of a cultural give and take…The only
thing is that we should be careful to take the
good and leave the bad. Without doing that, we
cannot progress. In the age of globalization, it is
impossible to erect barriers. Let us take what is
best in other countries, and use it for the healthy
growth of our society
• (Princess Adelah bint Abdallah, Arab News, 2007)