Male Champions for Gender Inclusive Organizations

研究表明，在领导岗位上有更多女性代表的公司比那些在组织高层中女性比例较低的公司表现得更好。为了鼓励女性领导者，许多公司利用多元化培训计划或以女性为中心的解决方案，如女性网络小组或领导力培训。虽然这些解决方案有其优点，但它们往往将创建更具性别包容性的组织的负担放在妇女自己身上。提高性别包容性的更有效方法是了解男性领导者在支持组织内女性进步方面可能发挥的作用。虽然许多男性领导者可能明白支持女性领导者的重要性，但他们可能不知道如何有效地做到这一点。该提案旨在确定男性拥护者的有效行为，以支持女性领导和组织中的性别平等。这项研究强调了男性在工作中促进性别包容的方式。这个项目的结果可以告诉组织如何影响、培训和鼓励可能的男性冠军在工作场所积极支持女性领导。男性拥护者，即重视工作场所多样性并支持提拔有才华的女性担任领导职务的男性领导者，在促进性别平等的变革中可以发挥关键作用。这个项目的目的是识别男性冠军的有效行为。多种研究，利用不同的研究设计和方法将进行检查这些行为。首先，我们将进行定性研究，通过对男性冠军和那些得到男性冠军支持的人的访谈，确定关键的性别包容性领导行为。从访谈中得出的主题将用于产生男性领导者性别包容行为的定量测量。其次，我们将进行定量研究，以检验性别包容性领导者行为与工作场所结果之间的关系。本文将采用多来源、多层次的数据来考察高层领导性别包容行为对其直接下属态度和绩效的影响。最后，我们将对一家性别包容性领导的最佳实践公司进行深入的案例研究。本研究将利用观察数据和对高层领导及其直接下属的深度访谈，以更好地了解男性冠军行为创造性别包容的工作场所文化的过程。本研究的结果可以通过增强我们对组织中促成性别平等的因素的理解而使员工和他们的组织受益。

Research shows that companies with greater representation of women in leadership positions perform better than those with lower percentages of women in the upper echelons of the organization. In order to encourage female leaders, many companies leverage diversity training initiatives or women-centered solutions, such as women's networking groups or leadership training. While these solutions have merits, they often place the burden of creating more gender inclusive organizations on women themselves. A more effective approach to enhance gender inclusivity is to understand the role that male leaders may play in supporting women's advancement within organizations. While many male leaders may understand the importance of supporting female leaders, they may not know how to effectively do so. This proposal seeks to identify effective behaviors of male champions for female leadership and for supporting gender equality in organizations. This research highlights ways in which males can contribute to gender inclusivity at work. Results from this project can inform organizations about how to influence, train, and encourage possible male champions to actively support female leadership in the workplace. Male champions, or male leaders who value diversity in the workplace and support advancing talented females to leader positions, have a critical role to play as agents of change to enhance gender equality. The purpose of this project is to identify the effective behaviors of male champions. Multiple studies that utilize different research designs and methods will be conducted to examine these behaviors. First, we will conduct a qualitative study, which utilizes interviews with male champions and those who have been supported by male champions, to determine key gender inclusive leadership behaviors. Themes derived from the interviews will be used to generate a quantitative measure of gender inclusive behaviors among male leaders. Second, we will conduct a quantitative study to examine the relationship between gender inclusive leader behaviors and workplace outcomes. Effects of top-level leaders' gender inclusive behaviors on their direct reports attitudes and performance will be examined using multi-source, multi-level data. Finally, we will conduct an in-depth case study of a best practices company for gender inclusive leadership. This study will utilize observational data and in-depth interviews with high level leaders and their direct reports to better understand the processes through which male champion behaviors create gender inclusive workplace cultures. Results of this research can benefit workers and their organizations by enhancing our understanding of factors contributing to gender equality in organizations.