Open AccessThe Development of Leadership in Confessional Schools / O Desenvolvimento de Lideranças nos Colégios das Missionárias Servas do Espírito Santo no Brasil
Author(s) -
Zélia Cordeiro dos Santos,
Sandra Cordeiro dos Santos Aragão,
Patrícia Martins Fagundes Cabral
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
brazilian journal of business
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2596-1934
DOI - 10.34140/bjbv3n5-004
Subject(s) - active listening , identity (music) , leadership development , sociology , confessional , qualitative research , perception , pedagogy , psychology , public relations , political science , social science , physics , communication , neuroscience , politics , acoustics , law
This paper aims at analyzing the processes of identity construction and the development of leaders through the perception of the intermediate leaders who work in the education organizations run by the Missionry Holy Spirit Sisters (MSSpS) of the Southern Brazil Province, which comprises four schools located in three Brazilian states. The theoretical background of this research was based on Komives (2005), DeRue and Ashford (2010), Cabral (2018), among other scholars who investigated the development and construction of leaders’ identities. This is a qualitative research that used 15 semi-structured interviews, listening to workers who have been in a position of leadership for at least three years. The data analysis was carried out from the transcripts of the interviews and the insertion of that content in the software NVivo© 10., divided into categories according to the answers given by the interviewees. The results found pointed out four central categories regarding identity construction and leadership development: (1) the perception of the qualities needed by the leader, (2) the organizational culture, (3) awareness of their own trajectory and (4) challenges. A fifth dimension was identified related to (5) the conceptions of leadership held by the institution. Each of these dimensions pointed out different implications regarding identity construction and leadership development. Among them, the experience of interaction, in which they influence and are influenced, was seen as a privileged source of learning for the development of a leader’s identity.