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A Method to My Quietness: A Grounded Theory Study of Living and Leading with Introversion

Oram, Leatrice
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2794-9609
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1471601040

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2016, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
Leadership scholar-practitioners must create a more sustainable, diverse, and equitable future, fostering emergence and development of resilient, competent leaders, including those who may have been previously overlooked. Leadership studies, particularly those situated in early trait and behavior paradigms, have long privileged extraverted leaders as ideal. The scholarly conversation is limited on introverted leaders; moreover, most of that literature depicts introversion as either a pathological construct associated with shyness and social anxiety, or includes introversion only by omission, as a state of deficit-of-extraversion. This study instead began with positive inquiry, framing introversion as a positive individual difference, and explored the lived experiences of introverted leaders. This research coalesced perspectives from positive psychology, positive identity at work, and positive organizational scholarship to inquire into introversion as a positive leadership construct. In this constructivist grounded theory study, leaders who identified as introverts and who reported introversion typology on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) were asked to reflect on their experiences of introversion, leadership identity development, and professional and personal pursuits. From the amassed data emerged three theoretical propositions. First, enacting leadership has significant costs for an introverted leader’s energy and identity. Second, an introverted leader must adopt a conscious learning orientation to leadership development, including experimentation with possible leader identities. Third, effective introverted leadership is dependent on understanding the powerful intersectionality of introversion, relationship, and identity. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA, http://aura.antioch.edu/ and OhioLink ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/etd
Elizabeth Holloway, PhD (Committee Chair)
Laura Morgan Roberts, PhD (Committee Member)
Harriet Schwartz, PhD (Committee Member)
Sandie Turner, PhD (Other)
222 p.
Higher Education Administration; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior; Personality; Personality Psychology; Social Research
Introvert; introversion; extraversion; extravert; grounded theory; leadership, leader identity, emergent leader; leadership development; positive identity; positive organizational scholarship; individual difference; positive psychology; personality

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  • Oram, L. (2016). A Method to My Quietness: A Grounded Theory Study of Living and Leading with Introversion [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1471601040

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Oram, Leatrice. A Method to My Quietness: A Grounded Theory Study of Living and Leading with Introversion. 2016. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1471601040.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Oram, Leatrice. "A Method to My Quietness: A Grounded Theory Study of Living and Leading with Introversion." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1471601040

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