Who am I as a leader? Shaping a hermeneutic perspective

This participative inquiry seeks to address its question by drawing on contemporary research into leadership and contributing to it by extending Rost's notion of 'influence relationship' and offering a concept of 'fidelity of influence'. It considers also how postmodern lead...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Gregory
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/989
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Summary:This participative inquiry seeks to address its question by drawing on contemporary research into leadership and contributing to it by extending Rost's notion of 'influence relationship' and offering a concept of 'fidelity of influence'. It considers also how postmodern leaders might become 'wise' through 'virtuous practical wisdom'. As the learning journey unfolded, the methodology transformed from positivist to hermeneutic and autoethnographic, culminating in the concept of 'storied spaces' to support deeper, hermeneutic insight into leading.