Critical Perspectives on Leadership: Emotion, Toxicity, and Dysfunction

Critical Perspectives on Leadership: Emotion, Toxicity, and Dysfunction

Critical Perspectives on Leadership: Emotion, Toxicity, and Dysfunction

Critical Perspectives on Leadership: Emotion, Toxicity, and Dysfunction

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Overview

This book offers a critique of the field of leadership studies, focusing on the dynamics between post-heroic leadership and the notion of functional and dysfunctional emotions.

Situated in the field of critical leadership studies, the chapters of this book set out to challenge the general assumption that emotionality is the antithesis of rationality. The authors expand upon the existing discussions of leadership emotions and reveal how toxicity and dysfunctionality are not merely simple, negatively coercive, or repressive phenomena, but can also have productive and enabling connotations. The book includes comprehensive overviews of traditional leadership thinking and in addition provides readers with critical reflections on concepts such as ignorance, authenticity, functional stupidity and vanity in leadership.

As the book presents a series of critical perspectives on how emotions can be theorized in leadership studies, it is suitable for advanced courses in the subject, as well as being a highly interesting monograph for academics in the field.

Contributors: M. Alvesson, Y.D. Billing, N. Harter, C. Howard, E.L. Jeanes, J. Lemmergaard, S.L. Muhr, A. Paulsson, A. Rehn, S. Schaefer, A. Spicer, S. Spoelstra, M. Walton


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857931122
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date: 08/28/2013
Series: New Horizons in Leadership Studies series
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Edited by Jeanette Lemmergaard, Vice Rector, IBA international Business Academy and Sara Louise Muhr, Associate Professor of Organization Studies and Human Resource Management, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface

PART I: LEADERSHIP MOMENTS
1. Broadening the Critical Leadership Repertoire: Emotions, Toxicity and Dysfunctionality
Jeanette Lemmergaard and Sara Louise Muhr

PART II: LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR IN PRACTICE
2. Introduction to Part II
Jeanette Lemmergaard and Sara Louise Muhr

3. The Rottweiler and the Flying Penguin: ‘Peacock Power’ in the Workplace
Michael Walton

4. Do it My Way: A Study on Type, Leadership and Emotions
Jeanette Lemmergaard and Clare Howard

5. Leadership in a Family Business: Kinship and Emotional Control
Emma L. Jeanes

6. The Emotional Rollercoaster: Leadership of Innovation and the Dialectical Relationship between Negative and Positive Emotions
Stephan Schaefer and Alexander Paulsson

7. Happily Working Until they Drop: When There is no Longer a Balance between Stress and Fun – A Task for Leadership
Yvonne Due Billing

PART III: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS
8. Introduction to Part III
Jeanette Lemmergaard and Sara Louise Muhr

9. Socrates’ Mission Against Reproachable Ignorance: Leaders who Refuse to Acknowledge their Ignorance and Instead Suppress Criticism
Nathan Harter

10. Leadership Studies: Out of Business
Sverre Spoelstra

11. Does Leadership Create Stupidity?
Mats Alvesson and André Spicer

12. Vain and Vainglorious Leaders?
Alf Rehn

Index
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