Critical Perspectives on Leadership The Language of Corporate Power Routledge Studies in Leadership Research Series
Auteurs : Learmonth Mark, Morrell Kevin
Within contemporary culture, ?leadership? is seen in ways that appeal to celebrated societal values and norms. As a result, it is becoming difficult to use the language of leadership without at the same time assuming its essentially positive, intrinsically affirmative nature. Within organizations, routinely referring to bosses as ?leaders? has, therefore, become both a symptom and a cause of a deep, largely unexamined new conceptual architecture. This architecture underpins how we think about authority and power at work. Capitalism, and its turbo-charged offspring neo-liberalism, have effectively captured ?leader? and ?leadership? to serve their own purposes. In other words, organizational leadership today is so often a particular kind of insidious conservativism dressed up in radical adjectives.
This book makes visible the work that the language of leadership does in perpetuating fictions that are useful for bosses of work organizations. We do this so that we ? and anyone who shares similar discomforts ? can make a start in unravelling the fiction. We contend that even if our views are contrary to the vast and powerful leadership industry, our basic arguments rest on things that are plain and evident for all to see.
Critical Perspectives on Leadership: The Language of Corporate Power will be key reading for students, academics and practitioners in the disciplines of Leadership, Organizational Studies, Critical Management Studies, Sociology and the related disciplines.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface
- Introducing the Language of Leadership
- Using the Language of Leadership
- Measuring the Language of Leadership
- Polishing Our Chains
- Building Santa’s Workshop
- Labels Matter
- Performing Leadership
- The Attractions of Being (Called) a ‘Leader’
- A Boost to the Executive Ego
- What is to be Done?
- Concluding Thoughts: Leadership as a Fig Leaf?
- Further Reading
Part I: Against ‘Leadership’
Part II: ‘Leadership’ as Rhetoric
Part III: The Seductions of ‘Leadership’
Part IV: Resistance
References
Index
Mark Learmonth is Professor of Organization Studies at Durham University, UK. He researches the personal consequences of work.
Kevin Morrell is an Associate Dean at Durham University, UK. He researches how organizations and individuals contribute to the public good.
Date de parution : 05-2019
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 05-2019
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes de Critical Perspectives on Leadership :
Mots-clés :
UK Business School; Leadership; British National Corpus; critical management studies; UK Academic; critical leadership; Field Marshal Sir William Slim; followership; Overwhelming Positivity; management philosophy; UK Prime Minister; Critical Leadership Studies; Santa’s Workshop; TGI Friday; Corpus Linguistics Methods; Field Marshal Slim; Term Performativity; Readymade Phrases; Mike Reed; Collinson’s Work; Company’s Ceo; Discursive Practice; Ceo Level; Word Sketch; Pygmalion Effect; Episodic Power; Leadership Development; Ceo Position; Cm; Mainstream Leadership Research