International Journal of Servant-Leadership
Abstract
The Women’s Project (TWP) is a Spanish based non-profit organization that hired an external consultant to analyze its organizational conflict between the main leaders and its members. TWP requested consultancy services to present a background case study about the organization through the lens of different philosophical approaches that can pose a series of reflective questions that may be used to initiate an internal dialogue towards practicing conflict resolution and a healing process of self-care. The consultant presents the final report with a background case study called The Women’s Project—A power balance issue at the core of a feminist organization with two philosophical analyses. The first analysis uses a servant-leadership lens, which is a new philosophical perspective to TWP. This analysis focuses on the ideas of using power, practicing trust, and applying the 10 characteristics of the servant-leadership. The second analysis uses a Feminist organizational lens following the organization feminist selfidentification. This analysis focuses on a feminist leadership process of distributing power based on the idea of the organization’s collective way of leading. The consultant concludes with a brief reflection on the intersection between servant-leadership and Feminist analyses regarding the organization’s background and conflict. This paper suggests that servant-leadership and Feminist lenses are compatible approaches toward creating a practical inquiry that may help this women’s organization in facing its internal conflict scenario while encouraging sustainable growth.
Recommended Citation
Penha-Vasconcelos, Carla
(2020)
"The Women’s Project—A Power Balance Issue in the Core of a Spanish Feminist Organization: A Case Study Inquiry Through the Lens of Servant-Leadership and Feminism,"
International Journal of Servant-Leadership: Vol. 14, Article 8.
DOI: 10.33972/ijsl.26
Available at:
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/ijsl/vol14/iss1/8
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