Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership

Edited by Leah Tomkins, Independent Scholar, Visiting Professor, University of the West of England, and former Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, UK

Contents:

Introduction 1
PART I SETTING THE SCENE: POWER, PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE
1 Leadership, care and (in)justice 16
Leah Tomkins

PART II THE ROOTS OF CARE: KINSHIP, FEELINGS AND BODIES
2 Do leaders need to have tender hearts? Emotion and the duty to care 29
Joanne B. Ciulla
3 The caring leader: an exploration of family archetypes 40
Yiannis Gabriel
4 Magically horrific: caring leadership and the paradoxical evolution of parenthood 52
Gerardo Abreu Pederzini
5 Leading with embodied care 63
Amanda Sinclair and Donna Ladkin

PART III THE RISKS OF CARE: DEPENDENCY, EXPLOITATION AND VULNERABILITY
6 The shepherd king and his flock: paradoxes of leadership and care in classical Greek philosophy 75
Carol Atack
7 Leadership and the fiduciary: addressing asymmetrical power by caring well 86
Helen Mussell
8 Leadership in the ancient and modern military: carelessness and moral injury 98
Liz Sawyer and Ben Sawyer
9 A metamorphosis for leaders: caring in good faith 109
Jen Jones

PART IV THE CARING LEADER AT WORK: SECURITY, SACRIFICE AND SELF
10 Care and security in Vergil’s Aeneid: an analysis of the politics of empire 121
Michèle Lowrie
11 Negative Capability and care of the self 131
Charlotte von Bülow and Peter Simpson
12 Pater figure: leaders, emperors and fathers in Seneca and Stoicism 142
Liz Gloyn
13 Through the prism of Sartre: taking care of our existential freedom 153
Peter Bloom

PART V RESHAPING THE CONTOURS OF LEADERSHIP: RELATIONSHIP, COMMUNITY AND DEMOCRACY
14 Educating caring leaders: a paradox of collective uniqueness 163
Ann L. Cunliffe and Matthew Eriksen
15 Caring leadership as collective responsibility: a dialogue with Arendt and Heidegger 175
Rita A. Gardiner
16 Caring leadership as radical ontology: Eastern philosophies of non-separation 186
Vinca Bigo
17 Care without leaders: the collective powers of affective leadership 198
Iain Munro and Torkild Thanem
18 Caring beyond kinship: applying Jane Addams’ social ethic to the organizational domain 210
Donna Ladkin

Index 222