Outputs (49)

Field Guide to Leadership Development (2017)
Book

This Field Guide offers a rich variety of academic approaches to facilitate leadership development in adults. It is an invaluable resource, giving insightful worked examples linked to theory and reflective commentary. The extensive experiences of wor... Read More about Field Guide to Leadership Development.

The absent follower: Identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2017. This article seeks to add to our understanding of processes of identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations through an exploration of the role of the absent, feminised follower. We situate our... Read More about The absent follower: Identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations.

Using Greek mythology in leadership development: The role of archetypes for self-reflection (2017)
Book Chapter

Deep, critical self-reflection is not easy (Reynolds, 1999). It requires time, space, courage and careful support and is often very difficult to achieve in the context of busy, demanding organisational lives where we are expected to be confident, str... Read More about Using Greek mythology in leadership development: The role of archetypes for self-reflection.

Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 European Academy of Management Adopting a multilingual perspective, this empirical paper explores the varied use and meanings of referents of leadership and management among 24 Welsh senior managers. We argue the importance of recognizing the... Read More about Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language.

Working with Language: A Refocused Research Agenda for Cultural Leadership Studies (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd This paper critically reviews existing contributions from the field of cultural leadership studies with a view to highlighting the conceptual and methodological limitations of the domin... Read More about Working with Language: A Refocused Research Agenda for Cultural Leadership Studies.

From the Black Square to the Red Square: Rebel leadership constructed as process through a narrative on art (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. The contribution this paper makes to leadership studies is to advance leadership theory towards a process based perspective based on an appreciation of art. The article does this by using a narrative on art in Russia. Th... Read More about From the Black Square to the Red Square: Rebel leadership constructed as process through a narrative on art.

Anthropological accounts of leadership: Historical and geographical interpretations from indigenous cultures (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This paper critiques contemporary leadership theory through a historiography of anthropological accounts. Through this review, the paper highlights a number of nuances in the conceptualisation of leadership from differin... Read More about Anthropological accounts of leadership: Historical and geographical interpretations from indigenous cultures.

Reframing, Realignment and Relationships - Interim evaluation of the first place-based programmes for Systems Leadership: Local Vision (2015)
Report

In Autumn 2014 Bristol Leadership Centre at the University of the West of England was commissioned to undertake evaluation of the Local Vision programme.

The evaluation is designed in two phases. This interim report sets out our findings for Phase... Read More about Reframing, Realignment and Relationships - Interim evaluation of the first place-based programmes for Systems Leadership: Local Vision.

Exploring power assumptions in the leadership and management debate (2015)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to take a fresh look at the leadership and management debate through exploring underlying power assumptions in the literature. Design/methodology/approach - The paper is a con... Read More about Exploring power assumptions in the leadership and management debate.

Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2013. In this article, we argue that management and business undergraduate students who are engaged in learning about leadership occupy a liminal space or state of between-ness. Drawing on anthropological conceptualisations of liminal... Read More about Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning.