Wanda Krause

• PhD Political Science
• Royal Roads University

From a 2017 Gallup poll using analytics from 160 countries on the global workplace, only 15% out of the world’s one billion full-time workers were engaged at work. Yet, in 2021, during COVID-19, a surprising rise in engagement with fluctuations was observed. What is interesting is that higher stress levels related to the compounding impacts of COVI...

To address the wicked issues perplexing the globe today that are ever more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), we need to be moving toward a truly collective leadership. We argue that a truly collective leadership is one that moves beyond the conceptualization of a singular leader to a collective that is highly engaged and relations...

As the world becomes more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), we require highly relationship focused, culturally sensitive, and contextually nuanced global leadership practices for our ever-changing new realities. Turbulent times have accelerated a need for leadership practice for our complex challenges and opportunities, including...

As many workplaces become more diverse, organizational leaders and managers need to create safe, equitable, and inclusive environments. However, in view of recent events, that go beyond the U.S., where inequity and exclusion persist across systems – within organizations, society, and in view of increasing global challenges – leaders have an even mo...

This chapter explains why gender diversity is beneficial for organizations and institutions. The discussion begins with defining gender diversity in a way that goes beyond the discourse around men and women to include non-binary gender identities, cultural symbols, and archetypes. It provides a focus on the need to include those marginalized at the...

Increasing interest in the Social Entrepreneur has evolved largely due to a desire to understand this growing group of individuals while the term itself is ill-defined. Given the growing and more complex global challenges, some of which are not unrelated to impacts of corporations operating without social responsibility, these actors are forging a...

Recognizing the need to build global-minded citizens, higher education institutions are increasingly trying to find ways to leverage their international programs to develop students’ intercultural competence. The MA in global leadership at Royal Roads University, Canada, created an international partnership in Ecuador that serves to go beyond the t...

Upon request by the FEMM Committee, this study examines the economic, political and socio-cultural changes which have affected the situation of women in the Gulf region over the last decades. Through an overall analysis and individual country reports, it notably sheds light on similarities and differences concerning women's emancipation in Bahrain,...

This collection deals with challenges and opportunities faced by Muslims and the wider society in Europe following the Madrid train bombings of 2004 and the London Transport attacks of 2005. The contributors explore the challenges to the concept and practice of civility in public life within a European context, and demonstrate the contributions tha...

In the goal of contributing to a better theoretical understanding of civil society and the role of women, this book has explored the role of UAE women in civil society. To determine and analyze civil society growth, it has focused on three key forms of association: state-run women’s organizations, Islamic-oriented organizations, and women’s network...

Like chapters 5 and 6, this chapter investigates aspects of women’s activism and their impact on civil society. It looks past the NGOs— the concept of civil society that has come to be signified by this form of collaboration—and asks if networks of individuals serve to contribute to a civil society in the UAE. The civil society concept has become s...

Civil society development in the Arab world has prompted much debate among academics and intellectuals. One critical viewpoint has been that civil society cannot flourish in the Middle East, not only because of authoritarianism, but also notably because of Islamism. After all, according to its scholars, Islam is a comprehensive mode of living that...

The sociohistorical background information given here helps place the subsequent chapters in their appropriate political, economic, and historical context, since it is important that women’s struggles are analyzed within this wider experience. Following a country profile on the UAE and a historical overview of the state’s formation, governmental st...

Chapters 3, 4, and 5 analyze the impact of women’s activism on civil society development through case studies on three different forms of women’s collaboration found in the UAE. This chapter looks at official UAE women’s societies and clubs, and chapter 4 examines Islamic-oriented women’s organizations and halakas. Chapter 5 studies women’s network...

This book investigates how indigenous forms of interaction and participation can assist in reaching a broader conception of civil society and also addresses inadequacies and biases in the application of the civil society concept. It studies the participation of women as a major sector of the population that until recently has remained unaccounted f...

This paper explores the development issue of democratisation from a gendered perspective, emphasising the need to look for the building blocks of democracy within civil society sectors where women play a key role. Chilean and Argentinian women prove an important example for sustainable political development through their roles as Mothers, particula...

Fethullah Gülen's works and movement have aimed to mend the tensions and fissures, spe-cifically along racial and ideological lines on both practical and theoretical levels that are emerging in this rapidly globalising world. Within a civil society theoretical framework, this paper addresses the knowledge developed on Islamically inspired forms of...

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2002. Includes bibliographical references.