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TY - JOUR
T1 - Love and leadership
T2 - constructing follower narrative identities of charismatic leadership
AU - Parry, Ken
AU - Kempster, Stephen
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - Most extant research on charismatic leadership has an essentialist orientation which characterises it as leader behaviour, leader communication or follower dependency. Our approach is more discursively oriented. To research charismatic leadership we used aesthetic narrative positivism, which undertook utilitarian as well as critical method. We examined followers’ implicit narratives of their lived experiences of charismatic leadership in organizational settings. We examined metaphors for this experience. Most respondents identified with positive affect, a form of love story; a minority experienced negative affect, especially anger; some experienced both positive and negative emotions. We posit that if one adopts a certain identity within the context of a dramatic narrative, one might be attributed with charismatic qualities by followers. In this way we suggest that charismatic leadership might be less a gift from God and more a ‘gift from followers’.
AB - Most extant research on charismatic leadership has an essentialist orientation which characterises it as leader behaviour, leader communication or follower dependency. Our approach is more discursively oriented. To research charismatic leadership we used aesthetic narrative positivism, which undertook utilitarian as well as critical method. We examined followers’ implicit narratives of their lived experiences of charismatic leadership in organizational settings. We examined metaphors for this experience. Most respondents identified with positive affect, a form of love story; a minority experienced negative affect, especially anger; some experienced both positive and negative emotions. We posit that if one adopts a certain identity within the context of a dramatic narrative, one might be attributed with charismatic qualities by followers. In this way we suggest that charismatic leadership might be less a gift from God and more a ‘gift from followers’.
KW - charisma
KW - leadership
KW - love
KW - narrative analysis
KW - metaphor
KW - identity
KW - relationship
U2 - 10.1177/1350507612470602
DO - 10.1177/1350507612470602
M3 - Journal article
VL - 45
SP - 21
EP - 38
JO - Management Learning
JF - Management Learning
SN - 1350-5076
IS - 1
ER -