Reimagining Faith and Management

3Leading with faith: Angela Merkel in psychobiographical perspective

Claude-Hélène Mayer

Faith can make leaders of all

Many experience its call

To hold up a cause

Without panting or pause

Till the world is

Redeemed from the fall

Godfrey D’Lima

Introduction

Leadership has advanced as a long-standing research topic in management, as well as in industrial and organisational psychology (Day, Fleenor, Atwater, Sturm, & McKee, 2014; Hughes, 2019; Mayer, Surtee, & May, 2015). Women in leadership have been researched regarding their experiences of barriers and their underrepresentation in leadership (Eagly & Carli, 2003; Mayer et al., 2015; Mayer & May, 2018). When, however, the question is posed how women leaders lead successfully, ...