Research On The Process Of Female Leaders' Community Participation

• Main Authors: Huei- Shing Lin, 林惠星
• Other Authors: Ming-Lieh Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02610103699578318225

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 成人與繼續教育研究所 === 101 === This study aims to discuss the community participation and progresses of female leaders. The objective of this study can be seen from four main perspectives, which are any understanding of the motives, analysis of working manners, predicaments and responses, and concrete impact of female leaders’ participation in community. The Semi-structured Interviews is adopted and applied to eight selected female leaders for in-depth interviews. According to the literature review, discussion and analysis of collected information, four conclusions are obtained as following. First, there is a wide variety of motives for female leaders to participate in community, including helping materialize oneself, extending love and caring of family, building connections, offering social responsibility and unexpected opportunities. Second, the methods that female leaders put into action aggressively can be observed and classified in three categories: human capital, finance capital, and social capital. For human capital, that life-long learning orientation, leading by personal example to read, hosting workshops for self-progresses and cultivating crew to help others to advance is all executed. For finance capital, winning over funds to develop community industry as well as combining community industry to enhance environmental quality are performed. For social capital, gathering a community consensus to arouse community awareness, voicing and participating in policy decision voluntarily, setting up interactive platform for resources, having community love feast, and taking advantage of mass media are mainly included. The interactive leading styles of female leaders embrace caring leadership, forgiving leadership and integrating leadership. Third, female leaders are in the face of different difficult positions, including lack of resources, reinforcement of people connection, unhealthy communication, interests of regional cliques and confrontation of organization development. The solutions to these issues cover items such as applying for project funds, training volunteers, developing industry finance independence, establishing discreet interpersonal relationship, boosting commutation quality and interdisciplinary cooperation, carrying on devotion to community and seeking for local aids, last but not least, probing into solutions of early organization development. Finally, female leaders bring influences to individual, family and community. They gain ground in self-improvement, having sweet and happy families, creating warm community atmosphere in order to encourage community residents to take part in community activities and improve living qualities more zealously. In accordance with the study result, the related suggestions are addressed on female community leadership, an executive branch of Ministry of the Interior, and future possible associated studies.