ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book assists employers in developing organizational strategies that promote work-life integration and in facilitating leadership career paths for high-potential women. It covers the broader aspects of trends and triggers of work-life interdependence and the shift away from the binary in which the boundaries between family and career are beginning to blur. The book presents examples of successful leadership practices in business and nonprofit organizations and how women can navigate their careers in gendered-type organizations. It offers strategies for reducing bias at work and for empowering women. These strategies include change leadership, cultural transformation, learning, and education. The book combines competing values leadership theory and research with evidence and findings from empirical studies to demonstrate the economic benefits of increasing diversity in management while, at the same time, creating opportunities for inclusive leadership in organizations.
