The good manager: an archetypical quest for morally sustainable leadership

Jerzy Kociatkiewicz () and Monika Kostera ()
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Jerzy Kociatkiewicz: University of Essex
Monika Kostera: Faculty of Management [Warsaw] - UW - Uniwersytet Warszawski [Polska] = University of Warsaw [Poland] = Université de Varsovie [Pologne], Linnaeus University

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Abstract: This paper explores the potential for morally sustainable leadership, i.e. leadership with an awareness of both light dark sides contained in the role of the leader, as symbolized by the archetype of the king. A narrative enquiry aiming at the study of fictive stories authored by management theorists and practitioners from different contexts, interweaving collective individual elements, brings to light how issues of leadership goodness are related to each other and to other themes. The stories are presented as archetypical tales, that is, stories that touch profound aspects of culture the psyche. They reveal what happens if people are asked to imagine a good manager, how this results in tragic ironic representations, rather than tales of straightforward goodness.

Keywords: Leadership; Archetypes; Narratives; Goodness; Imagination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-07-01
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Published in Organization Studies, 2012, 33 (7), pp.861-878. ⟨10.1177/0170840612445124⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/0170840612445124

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