Reimagining Faith and Management

4Managing piety, respectability and professionalism within women’s bodies

Fitri Oktaviani

If women could be just their way

Not enslaved by the mores of the day

Winsome and wise

Free spirits that rise

The times would be better I’d say

GodfreyD’Lima

Introduction

Despite the advancement of women and their increasing representation in the workplace, ultimately very few end up in top leadership positions (Heilman, Manzi, & Braun, 2015), as indicated by the 25 percent of women in global senior leadership positions in 2017 (Grant Thornton Research, 2017). This is also true in some developed countries. For example, in 2017 the UK only had 19 percent of females in senior management teams, while Germany had 18 percent (Grant Thornton ...