Proceedings of the International Conference on Leadership, Culture, and Talent Management
Year: 2024
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Women Leadership Sex Scandals in the Education Industry: Sonic Therapeutic Intervention Approach
Vasudev Das, PhD
ABSTRACT:
Although research on leadership sex scandals in the education industry abounds in the management domain, investigative studies on sonic therapeutic intervention for preventing women leaders’ sex scandals are negligible. Women leaders’ perpetuation of statutory rape is a growing concern considering that women are the carriers of culture. Grounded in Bandura’s self-regulation and Prabhupada’s sonic therapeutic intervention frameworks, the researcher explored the lived experiences of six STI practitioners on how STI prevents women leadership sex scandals leadership in the education industry. The researcher used semi-structured interviews from purposeful samples and documentary analysis to generate data. A scrupulous examination of interview data transcription showed that STI enabled high self-regulation, lust mitigation, mental health improvement, sobriety, high self-control, consequentiality mindfulness, post-conventional consciousness, and pro-supramundane value. The seven emerged themes facilitated non-involvement in illicit sex scandals of women leaders in the education sector. The study’s positive social change implications (PSCI) include responsible women leadership, values-based women’s leadership, critical, creative, and caring thinking (CCACT) women’s leadership, a people-oriented mentoring system, a better relationship between parents/guardians of students and female teachers, and reduced wanton trauma associated with child sexual abuse. The study fills the gap in the management literature.
keywords: consequentiality mindfulness; high self-regulation; post-conventional consciousness; responsible women leadership; values-based women leadership