The Masculinisation of Ethical Leadership Dis/embodiment

Liu, H

The Masculinisation of Ethical Leadership Dis/embodiment

Liu, H

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Business Ethics, 2017, 144 (2), pp. 263 - 278
Issue Date:: 2017-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Liu, H https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4211-0932	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-08-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Business Ethics, 2017, 144 (2), pp. 263 - 278	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0167-4544	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/41416
dc.description.abstract	© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. This article argues that while ethical leadership in mainstream theorising is assumed to be a cognitive exercise, leaders’ bodies in fact play a significant role in the social construction of ethical leadership. Their bodies (both their exposure and concealment) become particularly potent when leaders are depicted via the interplay between visual and verbal modes in the media. In order to extend current understandings of ethical leadership, this study employs a discourse analytic approach to examine how visual and verbal devices convey ethical leadership for two of Australia’s major bank chief executive officers—John Stewart and Ralph Norris—before and during the global financial crisis. Based on the analysis, this article demonstrates that ethical leadership is constructed through the confluence of elite and working class masculinities that is multimodally embodied and disembodied. The article suggests that what it means to be an ethical leader is invariably informed by class-based patriarchal norms that can serve to reinforce the masculinisation of ethics.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Business Ethics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s10551-015-2831-x	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Applied Ethics	en_US
dc.title	The Masculinisation of Ethical Leadership Dis/embodiment	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	144	en_US
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
utslib.for	1505 Marketing	en_US
utslib.for	2201 Applied Ethics	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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pubs.issue	2	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	144	en_US

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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. This article argues that while ethical leadership in mainstream theorising is assumed to be a cognitive exercise, leaders’ bodies in fact play a significant role in the social construction of ethical leadership. Their bodies (both their exposure and concealment) become particularly potent when leaders are depicted via the interplay between visual and verbal modes in the media. In order to extend current understandings of ethical leadership, this study employs a discourse analytic approach to examine how visual and verbal devices convey ethical leadership for two of Australia’s major bank chief executive officers—John Stewart and Ralph Norris—before and during the global financial crisis. Based on the analysis, this article demonstrates that ethical leadership is constructed through the confluence of elite and working class masculinities that is multimodally embodied and disembodied. The article suggests that what it means to be an ethical leader is invariably informed by class-based patriarchal norms that can serve to reinforce the masculinisation of ethics.

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