Culture and Leadership
From Approximation Towards Symbiosis
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Culture and Leadership: From Approximation Towards Symbiosis is a unique collection of international scholarly work that explores the connection between culture and leadership. The authors, coming from various theoretical and practical backgrounds, introduce new foundational ideas for studying leadership. They discuss how leadership can be defined and practiced in a dynamic way, considering both the personal and collective cultures of leaders and followers.
This book highlights the importance of understanding the cultural context in which leadership occurs. It emphasizes that effective leadership involves more than just individual traits or behaviours; it requires an appreciation of the cultural dynamics at play. By examining these interactions, the authors provide valuable insights into how leadership can be more effectively understood and applied in different cultural settings.
PART I. Towards a theoretical understanding of culture and leadership
- Chapter 1. Culture and leadership: From proximity to symbiosis; Sigmar Malvezzi
- Chapter 2. Lewin’s contribution to a cultural understanding of leadership in times of conflicts; Enno von Fircks
- Chapter 3. The impact of radical self-management: The formation of organisational culture that supports the satisfaction of basic human needs in holacracy; Veiko Valkiainen and Krista Jaakson
- Chapter 4. Beyond hierarchical power in organizations – a perspective from critical cultural psychology; Einar Baldvin Baldursson and Caspar Schmidt
- Chapter 5. A psychoanalytic and semiotic reading of the leadership and group dynamics: The contemporary case of the populism and the crisis of mediation; Raffaele De Luca Picione and Shady Dell'Amico
- Chapter 6. A revision of boesch’s early I-Theory for job-satisfaction and leadership; Enno von Fircks
- Chapter 7. The concept of dialogical and developmental movement: Who is leading the dance and how?; Dany Boulanger
- Chapter 8. Empiric systems: Industrial production, administration, care, and healthcare; Thomas Fröhlich
- PART II. Towards a practical understanding of culture and leadership
- Chapter 9. Between lewin and vygotsky: Understanding leader-follower interactions through a cultural psychological lens; Enno von Fircks
- Chapter 10. Transductive leadership: Rupture and transition of a beginning teacher in a japanese school abroad; Teppei Tsuchimoto
- Chapter 11. The leaders of figure skating: Mothers of pink skirts; Natalie Jancosek
- Chapter 12. The dynamics between leaders and jiti: Using leadership education for developmental intervention in a chinese charitable vocational training program; Jing Wang and Shuangshuang Xu
- Chapter 13. Management by participation in schools; Holger Zeigan
- Chapter 14. From an emotional autoethnography towards a theory of symbolic action leading (SAL); Anna Ghazi and Enno von Fircks
- Chapter 15. Taoistic insights for a new understanding of cultural leadership; Enno von Fircks
- Chapter 16. Leading the dialogical co-zone of proximal development: Studying the movement of twice-exceptionality in children from a catalytic methodology; Dany Boulanger, Geneviève Gauthier, and Luca Tateo
- PART III. Summary and outlook
- Chapter 17. The future of leadership from the perspective of cultural psychology of organizational dynamics; Enno von Fircks
Enno von Fircks is a PhD Candidate at the Sigmund-Freud-University, Austria