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2020 |
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abstract |
In this paper I respond to calls for more critical reflection on the power dynamics
of caring leadership. I consider how a combination of care and impotence might unfold
as Nietzsche’s ‘slave morality’, crystallised in the phenomenon of ressentiment. At
the heart of slave morality is an inversion of values in which everything represented
by the Other is denigrated so that the slave can find meaning and solace in his own
place in the world. The Nietzschean inversion transforms impotence, inferiority and
submission into virtue, identity and accomplishment. In contrast to recent elaborations
of ressentiment in followers, I argue that slave morality is something to which leaders,
especially caring leaders, are also vulnerable. When caring leadership awakens or
exposes the slave-within, we are unable to take charge of - or responsibility for
- ourselves, because we have ceded control of the self to forces beyond the self.
This is the risk of ‘care ethics’ as a systemic inversion of values which constructs
an ideology out of letting others define who and what we are. It creates a breeding
ground for ressentiment, feeding off unspoken and unspeakable grievances about the
injustices of one’s lot, especially those involving a clash between the rhetoric of
empowerment and the experience of impotence. The Nietzschean warning is: Be wary of
leadership models which might look and even feel nice, but which turn self-sacrifice
into virtue and silence into necessity. |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1239352 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1239366 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1239371 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1239372 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1239373 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1239374 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1246719 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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Tomkins, Leah (2020). Caring Leadership as Nietzschean Slave Morality. Leadership
(In Press). |
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Title |
Caring Leadership as Nietzschean Slave Morality |
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