Male Champions for Gender Inclusive Organizations

研究表明，担任领导职务的女性比例较高的公司，其业绩要好于组织高层中女性比例较低的公司。为了鼓励女性领导者，许多公司利用多元化培训举措或以妇女为中心的解决方案，如妇女网络小组或领导力培训。虽然这些解决办法有可取之处，但它们往往将创建更具性别包容性的组织的重担放在妇女自己身上。提高性别包容性的一个更有效的办法是了解男性领导人在支持妇女在组织内的发展方面可能发挥的作用。虽然许多男性领导人可能明白支持女性领导人的重要性，但他们可能不知道如何有效地做到这一点。这项提案旨在确定男性领导者在女性领导和支持组织中的性别平等方面的有效行为。这项研究强调了男性在工作中促进性别包容性的方式。这个项目的结果可以让组织了解如何影响、培训和鼓励可能的男性冠军积极支持女性在工作场所的领导。男性领军者或男性领导者重视工作场所的多样性，支持将有才华的女性提升到领导职位，作为促进性别平等的变革推动者，他们可以发挥关键作用。该项目的目的是识别男性冠军的有效行为。将进行多项研究，利用不同的研究设计和方法来检查这些行为。首先，我们将进行一项定性研究，利用对男性冠军和那些得到男性冠军支持的人的访谈，来确定关键的性别包容性领导行为。访谈的主题将被用来生成男性领导人性别包容性行为的量化衡量标准。第二，我们将进行量化研究，考察性别包容性领导行为与工作场所结果之间的关系。我们将使用多来源、多层次的数据来考察高层领导的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。这项研究将利用观察数据和对高层领导及其直接下属的深入访谈，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。这项研究的结果可以增进我们对促进组织中性别平等的因素的理解，从而使工人和他们的组织受益。

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.