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Reflexivity in Leadership: Becoming an Ethical Practitioner

Halliwell, Michael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307104353

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2011, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Communication.
Globalization and increasing levels of diversity within organizations have made adaptability and ethical leadership essential for today’s leaders (Cunliffe & Jun 2005). Traditional leadership studies that prescribe particular leadership approaches and essentialize leadership characteristics can impede leaders’ ability to adapt to unique and changing situations and complex issues within organizations (Cunliffe, 2002). Therefore, this study supports a more discursive, interpretive and situated view of leadership. Through interpersonal interviews and discourse analysis, this study investigates the leadership experiences of executives of a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. Specifically, this study examines how reflection, self-reflexivity, and critical-reflexivity manifest themselves in the characteristics and features of the interviewed leaders’ talk. Further, instances of self- and critical-reflexivity are examined for the dominant Discourses upon which interviewees appear to draw. The purpose is to encourage a more conscious consideration of ethical practices within organizations by focusing on how leadership practitioners can engage in reflexive thinking from within leadership situations.
Gail Fairhurst, PhD (Committee Chair)
Teresa Chandler Sabourin, PhD (Committee Member)
Heather Zoller, PhD (Committee Member)
103 p.
Communication
Leadership; Management; Reflexivity; Discursive; Ethics; Management

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  • Halliwell, M. (2011). Reflexivity in Leadership: Becoming an Ethical Practitioner [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307104353

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Halliwell, Michael. Reflexivity in Leadership: Becoming an Ethical Practitioner. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307104353.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Halliwell, Michael. "Reflexivity in Leadership: Becoming an Ethical Practitioner." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307104353

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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