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Leadership Manipulation and Ethics in Storytelling

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Auvinen, T., Lämsä, A.-M., Sintonen, T., & Takala, T. (2013). Leadership Manipulation and Ethics in Storytelling. Journal of Business Ethics, 116 (2), 415-431. doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1454-8 Retrieved from http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s...
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Journal of Business Ethics
Authors
Auvinen, Tommi |
Lämsä, Anna-Maija |
Sintonen, Teppo |
Takala, Tuomo
Date
2013
Discipline
Johtaminen
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© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Springer. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.

 
This article focuses on exerting influence in leadership, namely manipulation in storytelling. Manipulation is usually considered an unethical approach to leadership. We will argue that manipulation is a more complex phenomenon than just an unethical way of acting in leadership. We will demonstrate through an empirical qualitative study that there are various types of manipulation through storytelling. This article makes a contribution to the literature on manipulation through leadership storytelling, offering a more systematic empirical analysis and a more nuanced view of the topic than previously existed by outlining how managers engage in manipulative storytelling and what kind of ethics they link to their manipulation in leadership. Four types of manipulation in storytelling are identified in the study: humorous, pseudo-participative, seductive and pseudo-empathetic. From an ethical perspective, we will show that manipulation is not always self-evidently reprehensible. We will conclude that the dominant ethical justification for manipulation stems from its consequences. ...
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Springer
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0167-4544
Keywords
Leadership Ethics Unethical Manipulation Storytelling Narrative Narration Social constructionism

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http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1454-8

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10.1007/s10551-012-1454-8
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201602031430

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