Voices from the forest: Leadership revealed through care, shared understanding, and imagination [electronic resource]
說明
164 p
附註
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 1864
Adviser: Ellen Herda
Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of San Francisco, 2009
Although much has been written about the topic of leadership, there has been little research on the topic of leadership within indigenous peoples. This research project explores leadership with indigenous leaders and follows a critical hermeneutic research protocol for inquiry and analysis as delineated by Herda (1999) and draws upon the theories of Ricoeur (1981, 1984, 1992), Heidegger (1962), Gadamer (1979), Habermas (1984), and Kearney (1998, 2004)
The study focuses on an ontological framework of leadership that is currently unavailable from prevailing research orientations---one that emphasizes a dialogical exchange grounded in care, shared understanding, social imagery, and that embodies spiritual ideals. This framework mediates current leadership theory with an enriched approach for leaders to find in others new ways of being
The findings from this work represent a beginning to an understanding of leadership from a different approach; one that differs from individualistic and selfishness to one of collaborative, communal, and selflessness. It is an approach that incorporates the knowledge and experience of indigenous people, grounded in a deep sense of spirituality with others and nature
The project hints at a hermeneutically informed leadership approach that is aimed at creating a way thinking about possibility needed by leaders today. It is an approach which incorporates the experiences of indigenous leaders and can be appropriated to other organizational contexts; a leadership framework that emphasizes a dialogical exchange grounded in care, shared understanding, and imagination within a foundation of spiritual ideals that provide others the capacity to act, speak, and have their voices heard. It is leadership as a way of being; a way of acting in relationship with others
