Paradox and power in caring leadership critical and philosophical reflections

"Why does it matter that our leaders care about us? What might we reasonably expect from a caring leader, and what price are we prepared to pay for it? Is caring leadership something 'soft', or can it be linked to strategy and delivery? International scholars from the fields of ancien...

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Other Authors: Tomkins, Leah (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton Edward Elgar Publishing 2020, 2020
Series:New horizons in leadership studies series
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505 0 |a the collective powers of affective leadership (198) / Iain Munro and Torkild Thanem -- 18. Caring beyond kinship : applying Jane Addams' social ethic to the organizational domain (210) / Donna Ladkin -- Index (222) 
505 0 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Introduction (1) -- PART I. SETTING THE SCENE : POWER, PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE: 1. Leadership, care and (in)justice (16) / Leah Tomkins -- PART II. THE ROOTS OF CARE: KINSHIP, FEELINGS AND BODIES: 2. Do leaders need to have tender hearts? Emotion and the duty to care (29) / Joanne B. Ciulla -- 3. The caring leader: an exploration of family archetypes (40) / Yiannis Gabriel -- 4. Magically horrific: caring leadership and the paradoxical evolution of parenthood (52) / Gerardo Abreu Pederzini -- 5. Leading with embodied care (63) / Amanda Sinclair and Donna Ladkin -- PART III THE RISKS OF CARE: DEPENDENCY, EXPLOITATION AND VULNERABILITY: 6. The shepherd king and his flock : paradoxes of leadership and care in classical Greek philosophy (75) / Carol Atack -- 7. Leadership and the fiduciary : addressing asymmetrical power by caring well (86) / Helen Mussell -- 8. Leadership in the ancient and modern military: carelessness and moral injury (98) / Liz Sawyer and Ben Sawyer --  
505 0 |a caring in good faith (109) / Jen Jones -- PART IV THE CARING LEADER AT WORK: SECURITY, SACRIFICE AND SELF: 10. Care and security in Vergil's Aeneid : an analysis of the politics of empire (121) / Michèle Lowrie -- 11. Negative Capability and care of the self (131) / Charlotte von Bülow and Peter Simpson -- 12. Pater figure : leaders, emperors and fathers in Seneca and Stoicism (142) / Liz Gloyn -- 13. Through the prism of Sartre: taking care of our existential freedom (153) / Peter Bloom -- PART V RESHAPING THE CONTOURS OF LEADERSHIP: RELATIONSHIP, COMMUNITY AND DEMOCRACY: 14. Educating caring leaders : a paradox of collective uniqueness (163) / Ann L. Cunliffe and Matthew Eriksen -- 15. Caring leadership as collective responsibility : a dialogue with Arendt and Heidegger (175) / Rita A. Gardiner -- 16. Caring leadership as radical ontology : Eastern philosophies of non-separation (186) / Vinca Bigo --  
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520 |a "Why does it matter that our leaders care about us? What might we reasonably expect from a caring leader, and what price are we prepared to pay for it? Is caring leadership something 'soft', or can it be linked to strategy and delivery? International scholars from the fields of ancient and modern philosophy, psychology, organization studies and leadership development offer a strikingly original debate on what it means for leaders to care. At a time when the challenges of leadership are rarely out of the headlines, this ground-breaking work takes us beyond the demand that leaders should be competent at what they do, and into the moral and emotional politics of their influence on others. Debates include the costs of caring both too much and too little, the connections between care and feelings, how care affects the self, and caring leadership as collective responsibility. A key resource for scholars and practitioners in leadership and management, cultural studies, sociology and politics, this book offers an exciting, multi-disciplinary perspective on one of the most fascinating topics in contemporary leadership debates"--