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Leadership as Identity: Constructions and Deconstructions

✍ Scribed by Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth


Year
2008
Tongue
English
Leaves
220
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


According to Leadership as Identity, management has failed andΒ its successor is leadership. Can leadership fulfill the promises that are made in its name? This book is written for those charged with being leaders, andΒ uses poststructuralist theory to provide a language for the confusions and uncertainties that leadership can often bring.

✦ Table of Contents


Contents......Page 8
List of Table......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Part I: Constructions......Page 12
1 Texts......Page 20
2 Leadership as Performative: Or How the Words 'Leader' and 'Leadership' Do Things......Page 43
3 The Leader as Hero......Page 62
4 Learning to be a Leader—Training Courses......Page 79
Closing Notes to Part I......Page 97
Part II: Deconstructions......Page 98
5 Queer(y)ing Leadership......Page 102
6 Gendering Leadership......Page 127
7 The Psyche and Leadership......Page 150
Closing Notes to Part II......Page 173
Part III: Towards Emancipatory Leadership Development?......Page 176
8 Conclusions: Towards Emancipatory Leadership?......Page 178
References......Page 196
C......Page 212
E......Page 213
H......Page 214
L......Page 215
M......Page 216
P......Page 217
S......Page 218
W......Page 219
Z......Page 220


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