Leadership as Identity: Constructions and Deconstructions

✍ Scribed by Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 213
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-7
Texts....Pages 9-31
Leadership as Performative: Or How the Words ‘Leader’ and ‘Leadership’ Do Things....Pages 32-50
The Leader as Hero....Pages 51-67
Learning to be a Leader—Training Courses....Pages 68-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-90
Queer(y)ing Leadership....Pages 91-115
Gendering Leadership....Pages 116-138
The Psyche and Leadership....Pages 139-161
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Conclusions: Towards Emancipatory Leadership?....Pages 167-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-209

✦ Subjects

Business Strategy/Leadership; Management

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