Description
Leadership studies is a field that thrives on concepts: transformational leadership, ethical leadership, relational leadership and so on. These concepts are derived from academic research but come to influence real-world practice. How do these concepts emerge and what kind of influence do they have on leader behaviour? Why do some concepts gain tractions while others fall to the wayside? What happens when the rhetoric of leadership concepts fails to live up to the reality? These are some questions that we will be exploring in this webinar. The webinar will involve short presentations and discussion.
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Provider Information
BAM Leadership and Leadership Development SIG
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Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to Sections A1, A2 and C1, as detailed in the BAM Framework
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Speakers
Dr Nick Butler
Nick Butler is Associate Professor at Stockholm University Business School, Sweden. Nick researches in the field of organization studies, focusing on the sociology of work and critical perspectives on management. He writes on topics including leadership science, research ethics, digital gamification, and the politics of humour.
Prof Jackie Ford
Jackie Ford is Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at Durham University Business School. She has long-standing frustrations with much research on leadership, especially the absent recognition of power, inclusivity and social justice, and through her research she seeks to unsettle dominant understandings. Current interests include critical feminist, psychosocial and interdisciplinary approaches that recognise specific gender, wider diversity and ethical dimensions, and ways in which leadership and management research and practice impact on working lives. She has co-authored a monograph entitled Leadership as Identity: Constructions and Deconstructions (Ford, Harding and Learmonth, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); co-edited Making Public Services Management Critical (Currie, Ford, Harding and Learmonth, Routledge, 2010); co-edited a textbook, Leadership: Contemporary critical perspectives (Carroll, Ford and Taylor, Sage, 2019. 2nd edn); and has published in a range of journals including British Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Leadership, Management Learning, Organization, Organization Studies, Sociology, Work Employment and Society.
Dr Sverre Spoelstra
Sverre Spoelstra is an associate professor at Lund University School of Economics and Management and at Copenhagen Business School. Apart from leadership, his research interests include organizational philosophy, management knowledge production, and gamification. He is the author of Leadership and Organization: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2018)
Dr Scott Taylor
Scott Taylor is Reader/Associate Professor in Leadership & Organisation Studies, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. He has been researching and teaching leadership studies for around twenty years, focusing on charisma and gendered discrimination. Scott co-edits a successful textbook Leadership: Critical contemporary perspectives [Sage, 3rd edition 2022], with Brigid Carroll and Jackie Ford, with whom he has also published research on the social construction of knowledge in leadership textbooks.
Chaired by
Dr Eleni Karamali
She is also the co-track chair of the leadership and leadership development SIG of the British Academy of Management.
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Benefits of attending
Participants will benefit from:
- presentations and discussions providing insights into latest research in the field of leadership and leadership development
- an opportunity to take part in an important academic debate that informs business practices
- a better understanding of the conceptualisation of leadership
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Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at e[email protected] with any queries.
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Event Fee
BAM Members: Free
BAM Student Members: Free
Non-Members: £30
Non-Members, Students: £20
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