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Author Knights, David, 1940- author.

Title Leadership, gender and ethics : embodied reason in challenging masculinities / David Knights
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages)
Series Routledge studies in leadership research ; 18
Routledge studies in leadership research ; 18.
Contents Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What Is Distinctive About This Book? -- What You Will Find in This Book -- Organisation of the Book -- Part I Leadership: An Overview -- Part II Conceptual Reflections on Leadership, Ethics, and Masculinity -- Part III Empirical Illustrations of Leadership, Ethics and Masculinity -- Chap 11 Postscript -- Notes -- Part I: Leadership: An Overview -- 1. Reflecting on Leadership Studies -- Introduction -- What Is Leadership? -- Revitalising Leadership
Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology -- Humanism and Leadership -- Notes -- 2. Genealogies of Leadership in Practice and Theory -- Introduction -- A Brief Overview -- Pre-classical: Leadership as Myths and Mystification -- From classical to modern conceptions of leadership -- Leadership as Sovereign and Absolute Power -- Critical Practices and Theories -- Relational Theory -- Leadership, Gender and Diversity -- Sociomaterial Leadership -- Leadership as Practice -- Critical Leadership Studies (CLS) -- A Foucauldian Framework
A Neo-humanist Enlightenment Approach to Leadership and Its Development -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: Conceptual Reflections on Leadership, Ethics, and Masculinity -- 3. Identity and Leadership -- Introduction -- Drowning in the Presence of a Neglected Past -- Identity Work as Individualisation -- Leadership: Identity and Insecurity -- Authentic Leadership -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Power/Resistance -- Power at Last! -- What is Power? Luke's 3-dimensional Model -- Resisting Leaders and Managers -- Power in Leadership Studies -- Resistance in Leadership Studies
Foucault -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Diversity/Gender and Leadership -- Diversity Management -- Gendered Masculinities in Leadership -- Interrogating Masculine Identity -- Leadership and Masculine Insecurity -- Leadership as Gendered Seduction -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Embodied Reason and Affective Leadership -- Body Matters: Breaking Gender Binaries in Leadership -- Silencing the Body and Emotion -- Personal Research and Self-censorship -- Newspaper Case Study -- Sex Discrimination in Recruitment -- Death of the Subject
Masculine Disembodiment and Emotional Impoverishment -- The Cartesian Legacy -- Masculine Discourses -- Dissolving the Mind/Body Binary -- Affect and its Affects in Leadership -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 7. Ethics and Leadership -- Scandals and the Response -- Reflections on Ethics and Leadership -- Leadership -- Ethics -- Ethical Leadership -- Ethics, Subjectivity and Responsibility -- Whose Crisis? -- Leadership Ethics as Embodied Engagement -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III: Empirical Illustrations of Leadership, Ethics and Masculinity -- 8. Academia and Education
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351030328
1351030329