在影响女性领导开发的诸多障碍中，缺乏领导身份认同是来自女性内部的重要隐形障碍，建构和内化领导身份认同是促进女性领导开发的核心要素。鉴于目前女性领导开发和领导身份认同相关的跨文化研究相对匮乏，本课题计划运用当代管理科学的研究手段和方法，借鉴西方女性领导理论和领导身份认同理论的发展经验，扎根中美两国企业（组织）管理实践，从女性领导身份认同的基本结构与维度、影响因素、有效性及作用机制方面切入开展系统研究。我们的研究目的包括三方面，一是对比分析东西方不同的组织情境下女性领导身份认同的内涵和行为表现，开发出有效、可信的测评工具；二是探索女性领导身份认同对于女性职位晋升、领导有效性的影响机制，最后挖掘女性领导身份认同形成和发展背后的个人及环境因素，全面系统地揭示女性领导身份认同的形成、发展及影响的过程，进而推动女性领导力开发的理论及实践创新。

Women's lacking of leader identity is one of the most important impediments to their advancement. Therefore, it is essential to construct and internalize women's leader identity for promoting and facilitating female leadership development. Given the current relative scarcity of female leadership development and leader identity in cross cultural literature, this project plans to use contemporary scientific research methodologies, drawing on the experience of Western female leadership theory and leader identity theory, to identify its applications in both of Chinese and American management practices, to determine female leader identity's structure and dimensions, and to investigate its antecedents, effectiveness and impacting mechanisms. Based on the different contexts of Eastern country and Western country, the purpose of this study is three folds：First, we will conduct an in-depth analysis of the concept of female leader identity, to develop an effective and reliable assessment tools, and then to analyze the validity of the concept. Second, we will examine the influencing mechanism between female leader identity and female leader advancement and leadership effectiveness. Finally, we will investigate the personal and environmental factors that influence formation and development of female leader identity. Therefore, we can provide an integrated view of the developing process of female leader identity, thus promoting innovation of female leader development theory and practices.