Critical Perspectives on Leadership

Name: Critical Perspectives on Leadership
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Critical Perspectives on LeadershipThe Language of Corporate Power\nAuthor(s): Mark Learmonth, Kevin Morrell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138093980, 978-1138093980\nSynopsis\nWithin contemporary culture, leadership is seen in ways that appeal to celebrated societal values and norms. As a result, it is becoming difficult to use the language of leadership without at the same time assuming its essentially positive, intrinsically affirmative nature. Within organizations, routinely referring to bosses as leaders has, therefore, become both a symptom and a cause of a deep, largely unexamined new conceptual architecture. This architecture underpins how we think about authority and power at work. Capitalism, and its turbo-charged offspring neo-liberalism, have effectively captured leader and leadership to serve their own purposes. In other words, organizational leadership today is so often a particular kind of insidi.