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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Year 2014 
Volume 12 
Issue 3

Affirmation and Creation – How to lead ethically

2014 12 (3) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Abstract

This paper proposes an alternative approach towards ethical leadership. Recent research tells us that socioeconomic and cultural differences affect moral intuition, making it difficult to locate a guiding organizational principle. Nevertheless, in this paper I attempt to open an alternative path towards an ethics that might serve as a guide for leaders – especially leaders who are leading a highly professionalized workforce. Using the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño and the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as points of reference, I develop an ethical form of leadership that is based on a continuous ‘poetic’ dialogue between creation and affirmation. The nature of this dialogue requires a leadership approach that plays both a courageous and imaginative role in liberating its workforce. Last, I develop a frame which provides the constituent principles of leading in the direction of an ethical organization.

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Janning, Finn (2014). Affirmation and Creation – How to lead ethically. (2014). Affirmation and Creation – How to lead ethically. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 12(3), 25-35. (Original work published 2014)

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Janning, Finn. “Affirmation And Creation – How To Lead Ethically”. 2014. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, vol. 12, no. 3, 2014, pp. 25-35.

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Janning, Finn. “Affirmation And Creation – How To Lead Ethically”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 12, no. 3 (2014): 25-35.