A3 Book section, Chapters in research books
Who Sustains Whose Passion? (2022)
Siltaoja, M., & Heikkinen, S. (2022). Who Sustains Whose Passion?. In F. Hertel, A. Örtenblad, & K. Mølbjerg Jørgensen (Eds.), Debating Leaderless Management : Can Employees Do Without Leaders? (pp. 179-192). Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Debates in Business and Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04593-6_11
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Siltaoja, Marjo; Heikkinen, Suvi
Parent publication: Debating Leaderless Management : Can Employees Do Without Leaders?
Parent publication editors: Hertel, Frederik; Örtenblad, Anders; Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Kenneth
ISBN: 978-3-031-04592-9
eISBN: 978-3-031-04593-6
Journal or series: Palgrave Debates in Business and Management
ISSN: 2524-5082
eISSN: 2524-5090
Publication year: 2022
Pages range: 179-192
Number of pages in the book: 364
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: Cham
Publication country: Switzerland
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04593-6_11
Publication open access: Not open
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Abstract
The passion shared by organizational members toward their work has become a highly promoted topic. This discourse suggests that passion strives people to self-management, decreases the importance of leadership, and promotes leaderless organizations. However, we argue that the idea of passionate individuals is still centered on the leader and the feasibility of their passions. Our chapter shows how the hunt for passion has much to do with strong individuals and measurable outcomes and less to do with shared negotiation goals and ethical processes. We conclude that passionate individual behaviors might not promote leaderless organizations nor a collectively shared and negotiated ethical practices. We end by discussing whether and how shared leadership could help solve some of the ethical tensions in the crave for passionate organizational members.
Keywords: work communities; organisations (systems); passion; leadership (activity); leadership (properties); managers and executives; self-leadership; ethicality
Free keywords: passionate leaders; followers; leaderless organizations; ethicality
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Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2022
JUFO rating: 3
