Nonprofit board culture: Intentional or dysfunctional?

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
James Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Board Culture

scholarly journals Revolution From Above? Female Directors’ Equality-Related Actions in Organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 000765032110018
Author(s):  
Anja Kirsch
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Female Directors ◽  
Board Processes ◽  
Supervisory Boards ◽  
German Stock ◽  
Board Culture ◽  
Informal Settings

Drawing on interviews with women and men who serve on the supervisory boards of German stock-listed companies, this qualitative study examines why some female directors seek to augment gender equality in their organizations while others do not. Those who take action do so both in formal board processes and in informal settings. A sense of belonging to women as a social group and a sense of responsibility for women in the organization are key factors in explaining why some female directors contribute to gender equality. In addition, the study highlights the relevance of a board culture supportive of gender equality and positive expectations by other organizational members about female directors’ role in advancing gender equality. Board chairs influence how supportive female directors perceive the organizational context to be. Where the organizational context is not seen as supportive, those who take equality-related action anyway are experienced directors. Surprisingly, the presence of other women on the board does not appear to be related to whether or not female directors take action. Examining female directors’ actions and paying close attention to both their identities and their specific organizational settings shows how the interplay between social identity and situational opportunities and constraints affects board behavior.

scholarly journals Journeying into the kinescape of unicycling: A Deleuzian perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1356336X2110659
Author(s):  
Håkan Larsson ◽  
Gunn Nyberg ◽  
Dean Barker
Keyword(s):  
Student Teacher ◽  
Instructional Video ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Sport Pedagogy ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Pedagogical Research ◽  
Board Culture ◽  
Triadic Relationship

Movement learning has become a prominent issue in recent sport pedagogy research, including a particular concern about the new perspectives of movement learning. The turn towards new perspectives is partly spurred by discontent with the conventional perspectives of movement learning. The purpose of the article is to explore a journey into the kinescape of unicycling. The article can be seen as a case study of what it means to learn (how) to unicycle for one student teacher in the midst of a pedagogical research module and with the aid of the Deleuzian notion of a triadic relationship between percepts, affects and concepts. The analysis points to how a student, in the midst of material features such as equipment, the sport hall, other people, and instructional video clips, is mapping connections between concepts (what unicycling can be), percepts (a-ha moments) and affects (what moves him to continue practising unicycling), in ways that allow him to learn to unicycle with astonishing pace. His practising of unicycling is guided by particular strategies for exploration and experimentation that his experiences of board culture offer him. Rather than any general principles of movement learning, of importance here are the particular ways in which kinesio-cultural exploration may offer non-linear resources for movement learning. We conclude that this approach to learning may stimulate pedagogies that are not only effective but also more inclusive because they are more creative and more open than linear approaches to movement learning.

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