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2015-08 |
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2015-08-31 |
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p17413044 |
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abstract |
This paper develops the idea of caring leadership based on Heidegger’s philosophy
of care. From this perspective, caring leadership is grounded in the practices of
‘leaping-in’ and ‘leaping-ahead’ as modes of intervention in the affairs of the world
and the efforts of others. This involves gauging and taking responsibility for the
ramifications of intervention, balancing the urge for certainty of outcome and visibility
of contribution with the desire to encourage and enable others. Our analysis suggests
several twists to contemporary leadership debates. We argue that the popular models
of transactional and transformational leadership are to be critiqued not for their
over-reliance, but rather, their under-reliance on agency. This is a different kind
of agency to that of heroic or charismatic models. It involves tolerance of complexity
and ambivalence; a rich sense of temporal trajectory; concern for one’s presence in
the world; and crucially, the ability to resist the soothing normativity of ‘best
practice’. From this position, we argue that the problem with the growing scholarly
interest in an ethic of care is that it provides too tempting a recipe to follow.
In a Heideggerian view, caring leadership has little to do with compassion, kindness
or niceness; it involves and requires a fundamental organization and leadership of
self. |
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authors |
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8 |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/357993 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/357999 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/358000 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/358001 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/358002 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/358003 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/358086 |
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volume |
36 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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label |
Tomkins, Leah and Simpson, Peter (2015). Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective.
Organization Studies, 36(8) pp. 1013–1031. |
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label |
Tomkins, Leah and Simpson, Peter (2015). Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective.
Organization Studies, 36(8) pp. 1013–1031. |
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Title |
Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective |
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oro |