Why does it matter that our leaders care about us? What might we reasonably expect from a caring leader, and what price are we prepared to pay for it? Is caring leadership something 'soft', or can it be linked to strategy and delivery? International scholars from the fields of ancient and modern philosophy, psychology, organization studies and leadership development offer a strikingly original debate on what it means for leaders to care. At a time when the challenges of leadership are rarely out of the headlines, this ground-breaking work takes us beyond the demand that leaders should be competent at what they do, and into the moral and emotional politics of their influence on others. Debates include the costs of caring both too much and too little, the connections between care and feelings, how care affects the self, and caring leadership as collective responsibility. A key resource for scholars and practitioners in leadership and management, cultural studies, sociology and politics, this book offers an exciting, multi-disciplinary perspective on one of the most fascinating topics in contemporary leadership debates.

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Contents: Introduction 1 PART I SETTING THE SCENE: POWER, PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE 1 Leadership, care and (in)justice 16 Leah Tomkins PART II THE ROOTS OF CARE: KINSHIP, FEELINGS AND BODIES 2 Do leaders need to have tender hearts? Emotion and the duty to care 29 Joanne B. Ciulla 3 The caring leader: an exploration of family archetypes 40 Yiannis Gabriel 4 Magically horrific: caring leadership and the paradoxical evolution of parenthood 52 Gerardo Abreu Pederzini 5 Leading with embodied care 63 Amanda Sinclair and Donna Ladkin PART III THE RISKS OF CARE: DEPENDENCY, EXPLOITATION AND VULNERABILITY 6 The shepherd king and his flock: paradoxes of leadership and care in classical Greek philosophy 75 Carol Atack 7 Leadership and the fiduciary: addressing asymmetrical power by caring well 86 Helen Mussell 8 Leadership in the ancient and modern military: carelessness and moral injury 98 Liz Sawyer and Ben Sawyer 9 A metamorphosis for leaders: caring in good faith 109 Jen Jones PART IV THE CARING LEADER AT WORK: SECURITY, SACRIFICE AND SELF 10 Care and security in Vergil’s Aeneid: an analysis of the politics of empire 121 Michèle Lowrie 11 Negative Capability and care of the self 131 Charlotte von Bülow and Peter Simpson 12 Pater figure: leaders, emperors and fathers in Seneca and Stoicism 142 Liz Gloyn 13 Through the prism of Sartre: taking care of our existential freedom 153 Peter Bloom PART V RESHAPING THE CONTOURS OF LEADERSHIP: RELATIONSHIP, COMMUNITY AND DEMOCRACY 14 Educating caring leaders: a paradox of collective uniqueness 163 Ann L. Cunliffe and Matthew Eriksen 15 Caring leadership as collective responsibility: a dialogue with Arendt and Heidegger 175 Rita A. Gardiner 16 Caring leadership as radical ontology: Eastern philosophies of non-separation 186 Vinca Bigo 17 Care without leaders: the collective powers of affective leadership 198 Iain Munro and Torkild Thanem 18 Caring beyond kinship: applying Jane Addams’ social ethic to the organizational domain 210 Donna Ladkin Index 222