Professor Peter Case Peter.Case@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Organization Studies
Philosophy of leadership
Case, Peter; French, Robert; Simpson, Peter
Authors
Robert French
Peter Simpson Peter.Simpson@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Contributors
Alan Bryman
Editor
David Collinson
Editor
Keith Grint
Editor
Brad Jackson
Editor
Mary Uhl-Bien
Editor
Abstract
We do not intend this chapter to be simply a dry chronicle or catalogue of leadership philosophies. For one thing, even were such an audacious project pursued, it would doubtless prove to be more than anyone could possibly accomplish in a lifetime and, for certain, could not be confined to an eight-thousand word chapter. More productive, we suggest, is the task of doing philosophy of leadership. But what exactly might that ‘doing’ entail? At least four strategies of enquiry suggest themselves: (1) to consider the explicit and implicit philosophies informing contemporary leadership studies; (2) to examine the semantics and meaning-in-use of the terms ‘lead’, ‘leader’, ‘leadership’ and their putative relationship to ‘philosophy’; (3) to consider the explicit and implicit philosophies of leadership that may be discovered through an examination of the history of ideas pertaining broadly to ‘leadership’; and, (4) to suggest ways in which ‘leadership philosophy’, in contrast to ‘philosophy of leadership’, might be developed. Each of these four strategies, moreover, reveals a set of problematics and enables the establishment of some general parameters for the philosophical study and practice of leadership.
Citation
Case, P., French, R., & Simpson, P. (2011). Philosophy of leadership. In A. Bryman, D. Collinson, K. Grint, B. Jackson, & M. Uhl-Bien (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Leadership (685-727). London: Sage
Publication Date | Feb 28, 2011 |
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Deposit Date | Oct 26, 2010 |
Publicly Available Date | May 15, 2016 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 685-727 |
Book Title | SAGE Handbook of Leadership |
ISBN | 9781848601468 |
Keywords | leadership, leadership philosophy, virtue ethics, critical management studies |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/965111 |
Publisher URL | http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book233409 |
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