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Situating and progressing resistance leadership research : An interview with David Collinson and Keith Grint
No full textResistance leadership is a vital concept that gets to the heart of the power dynamics of organizations and societies. This interview, conducted by one of the special issue editors, Owain Smolović Jones, with two key figures in critical leadership studies, Keith Grint and David L. Collinson, provides readers with an orientation to this area of research. It does so through offering definititional clarity, expanding on the concept’s value and summarising key ideas. From this basis, the value of resistance leadership is explored in relation to the climate crisis, inequalities and other key contemporary issues. The interview concludes through offering readers advice on how to pursue compelling and impactful research on resistance leadership
David L. Collinson
No full textThis entry outlines the work and contributions of David L. Collinson, UK-based scholar of gender, organizations and management. His range of work on critical approaches to leadership, management and organization is vast and variegated, with primary interests in: leadership and followership dialectics; power, identities and insecurities; gender, men and masculinities; conformity, dramaturgy and resistance; humour in organizations; and positivity and Prozac leadership. In particular, Collinson has focused much of his academic work on two related subject areas—leadership, and gender, men and masculinities, thus bridging critical leadership studies and critical studies on men and masculinities. He has worked creatively across dualities, bridging materialism and poststructuralism, individuals and collectivities, and work life and identity, as summated in the concept of cultural discursive practices.</p
David L. Collinson
No full textDavid L. Collinson is a UK-based scholar of gender, organizations and management, with a special interest in leadership. Collinson can rightly claim to be amongst a small number of top-flight European scholars in his field. His range of work on critical approaches to leadership, management and organization is vast and variegated, with primary interests in: leadership and followership dialectics; power, identities and insecurities; gender, men and masculinities; conformity, dramaturgy and resistance; humour in organizations; and positivity and Prozac leadership. In particular, he has focused much of his academic work on two related subject areas, leadership, and gender, men and masculinities, thus bridging Critical Leadership Studies (CLS) and Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities (CSMM).
Prozac Leadership and the limits of positive thinking
No full textThis article critically examines excessive positivity in leadership dynamics. It argues that the tendency for leader positivity to become excessive is a recurrent but under-researched medium through which power and identity can be enacted in leadership dynamics. Drawing on the metaphor of ‘Prozac’, it suggests that leaders’ excessive positivity is often characterized by a reluctance to consider alternative voices, which can leave organizations and societies ill-prepared to deal with unexpected events. Prozac leadership encourages leaders to believe their own narratives that everything is going well and discourages followers from raising problems or admitting mistakes. The article also argues that followers (broadly defined) are often quick to identify leaders’ excessive positivity and are likely to respond through various forms of resistance. It concludes by considering the extent to which excessive positivity also characterizes leadership studies, and raises additional questions for further critical analyses of Prozac leadership
Critical Dialectical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Leadership
No full textThe 21st century re-emergence of so-called “strongmen” political leaders has once more brought into sharp relief important questions about the inter-relations between men, masculinity/ies and leadership. This chapter addresses these issues by highlighting the value of more critical perspectives. It argues that, when combined together, the insights of critical studies of men and masculinities (CSMM) and critical leadership studies (CLS) help to reveal how power in all its intersecting hierarchical and gendered forms can be exercised in and through men’s leadership discourses, decisions and practices. Parallel developments in both perspectives also point to the value of more critical dialectical approaches which suggest that while power may be enacted in oppressive, top-down ways, it is rarely all determining, monolithic and/or fixed. Although male-dominated leadership power dialectics are typically asymmetrical, they can also produce unintended, paradoxical and contradictory effects. This is illustrated by discussing some of the destructive, contradictory and self-defeating consequences that can emerge when men leaders’ decisions are informed by hypermasculine ways of thinking and acting
Letter from Bishop David Keane to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Bishop David Keane, The Palace, Corbally, Limerick, to (Hagan), enquiring about two dispensations yet outstanding that had already been presented to the congregation in question; the names are O'Malley-Stewart and Murphy-Collinson. Then giving description of a newly-founded association at the Mary Immaculate College, the 'Modest Dress and Deportment Crusade', with a juvenile branch. Asking the Pope's blessing for it
Cardiac troponin I but not cardiac troponin T adheres to polysulfone dialyser membranes in an in vitro haemodialysis model: explanation for lower serum cTnI concentrations following dialysis.
No full textBACKGROUND: Elevated serum cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and I (cTnI) can occur in patients with chronic kidney disease. Differences in cTn concentrations between cTnT and cTnI have been reported but the mechanism of such discrepancy has not been investigated. This study investigates the clearance of cTn with the aid of an in vitro model of haemodialysis (HD).
METHODS: Serum was obtained before and after a single session of dialysis from 53 patients receiving HD and assayed for cTnT and cTnI. An in vitro model of the dialysis process was used to investigate the mechanism of clearance of cTn during HD.
RESULTS: Serum cTnI was significantly lower (p=0.043) following a session of HD whereas cTnT concentrations were similar to those obtained before HD. Using an in vitro model of dialysis, it was demonstrated that cTnI is not dialysed from the vascular compartment but adheres to the dialyser membrane.
CONCLUSIONS: The adherence of cTnI to the dialyser membrane is responsible for the observed decrease in serum cTnI following a session of dialysis. The adherence of cTnT or T-I-C complex to the dialyser membrane could not be demonstrated and supports the observation that pre-HD and post-HD serum concentrations of cTnT are similar
Situating and progressing resistance leadership research
No full textResistance leadership is a vital concept that gets to the heart of the power dynamics of organizations and societies. This interview, conducted by one of the special issue editors, Owain Smolović Jones, with two key figures in critical leadership studies, Keith Grint and David L. Collinson, provides readers with an orientation to this area of research. It does so through offering definititional clarity, expanding on the concept’s value and summarising key ideas. From this basis, the value of resistance leadership is explored in relation to the climate crisis, inequalities and other key contemporary issues. The interview concludes through offering readers advice on how to pursue compelling and impactful research on resistance leadership
Studying men, masculinities, organizations and organizing:Introducing the handbook
No full textThis introductory chapter to the Handbook sets out some of the major contexts for the development and growth of focused studies on the relations of men, masculinities, organizations and organizing - a topic that is always topical. Earlier studies are briefly reviewed before considering the range of theoretical, disciplinary and methodological approaches that are relevant to this focus of study and research. The chapter continues with discussions of three key framings: critical studies of men and masculinities; debates on intersectionality/ies; and the ever-present importance of histories and power for understanding the relations of men, masculinities, organizations and organizing. The chapter concludes with an overview of the volume, including short summaries of all the other chapters of the Handbook, followed by final comments on the relevance of these issues for transforming academia, writing and publishing.</p
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