Stoten, David (2021) Exige-stential leadership: exploring the limits of leadership in a crisis. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 42 (3). pp. 333-347. ISSN 0143-7739
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Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how leadership can better respond to a crisis. It aims to integrate ideas from existentialism into a discussion of how leadership could develop and provoke debate.
Design/methodology/approach
A review of the literature on leadership, crisis management and existentialism was adopted for the preferred research methodology.
Findings
This paper identified a gap in the literature on leadership in an exigency and offered an alternative to the technical-rationalist conceptions of leadership behaviour.
Practical implications
Reference is made to the benefits of counselling for leaders following a crisis.
Originality/value
This paper is an original contribution to the work on leadership. Through the concept of exige-stential leadership, this paper integrates ideas taken from existentialist philosophy, to provide a new way of conceptualising leadership in an exigency.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Exige-stential leadership, Existentialism, Authentic leadership, Complexity theory, Crisis management |
| Subjects: | N100 Business studies N200 Management studies N900 Others in Business and Administrative studies |
| Department: | Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Branson |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2021 15:22 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2021 11:16 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/45192 |
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