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Leadership as Identity

Constructions and Deconstructions

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  1. Jackie Ford
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  2. Nancy Harding
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  3. Mark Learmonth
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Constructions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-7
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    2. Texts

      • Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth
      Pages 9-31

    3. Leadership as Performative: Or How the Words ‘Leader’ and ‘Leadership’ Do Things

      • Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth
      Pages 32-50

    4. The Leader as Hero

      • Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth
      Pages 51-67

    5. Learning to be a Leader—Training Courses

      • Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth
      Pages 68-85

  3. Deconstructions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-90
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    2. Queer(y)ing Leadership

      • Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth
      Pages 91-115

    3. Gendering Leadership

      • Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth
      Pages 116-138

    4. The Psyche and Leadership

      • Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth
      Pages 139-161

  4. Towards Emancipatory Leadership Development?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Conclusions: Towards Emancipatory Leadership?

      • Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth
      Pages 167-184

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 185-209
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About this book

Management has failed; its successor is leadership. Can leadership fulfil the promises that are made in its name? This book is written for those charged with being leaders, and uses poststructuralist theory to provide a language for the confusions and uncertainties that leadership can often bring.

Reviews

'...this succinct, well-written and imaginative book...comes highly recommended, both for its scholarly and readable value. This is a suitable and helpful text for students of leadership studies, especially those who are encouraged to think about 'leadership' critically.' - Management Learning

About the authors

JACKIE FORD is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at the University of Bradford School of Management, UK. She has previously worked at the University of Leeds, and embarked on her second career in academe 15 years ago after a 10-year career in Human Resource Management. Throughout her working life, she has been fascinated by people's experiences and this continues to inform her thinking in relation to ways in which leadership and management is conceptualised, researched and practised. 
 
NANCY HARDING is Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies at the University of Bradford School of Management, UK. She has previously worked at the Universities of Leeds and Wales. She was a mature student from a mining background in the South Wales Valleys and her early experiences influence her research and writing, which is concerned with the ways in which work can be exploitative, demeaning and oppressive.         
 
MARK LEARMONTH is an Associate Professor of Organization Theory at Nottingham University Business School, UK. He previously worked at the University of York. Mark has published in journals including Academy of Management Review; Academy of Management Learning& Education; Journal of Management Studies; Organization; Public Administration; Sociology of Health& Illness and Qualitative Inquiry.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Leadership as Identity

  • Book Subtitle: Constructions and Deconstructions

  • Authors: Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584181

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-51632-8Published: 12 September 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35442-9Published: 12 September 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58418-1Published: 12 September 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 209

  • Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Management

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