Dialogue in Organizations
Develo** Relational Leadership
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Relevance and Challenges of Whistleblowing in the UK’s National Health System
In healthcare and elsewhere, the frequent response to actual and potential malpractice is to increase the intensity and volume of formal processes of inspection—alongside an emphasis on individual courage to s...
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Introduction
The twenty-first century has ushered in remarkable technological progress which is enabling virtual, global communication and working practices. In parallel with these opportunities however we find ourselves n...
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Relational Leadership and Dialogue: A Personal Reflection
The question directing this book has been ‘how does Martin Buber’s concept of I-Thou dialogue inform the theory and practice of Relational Leadership?’ The application of novel methods (first-person and co-ope...
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Relational Leadership and Dialogue: A Gap in Knowledge
The objective of this chapter is to examine the relational leadership literature and the literature on dialogue together in order to explore how the between space of dynamic leadership relation has been concep...
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Presence: The Tyranny of ‘Busyness’ and Its Affect on Relational Leadership and Dialogue
Tony: I think when I’ve tried to initiate dialogue … I get a sense, certainly from my management team, of impatience, they want to be out there fixing rather than sitting, and I’m tryi...
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Power and Judgements: Leader-Follower Mutuality
The previous two chapters have considered some of the assumptions that might be associated with the ‘leader’ role. This chapter addresses this specifically with the question ‘what was leadership in the group?’...
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Towards a Theory of Leader-Follower Encounter
The preceding four chapters have detailed my interpretations of data arising from first-person and co-operative inquiry methods. These methods have been employed in order to explore how Buber’s concept of I-Th...
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Relational Leadership and Dialogue: Applying an Action Research Approach
The last chapter detailed limitations within RLT and showed the rationale for using Buber’s concept of I-Thou dialogue as a lens to view the leader-follower between space. From various calls within the literat...
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Rules of the Game and Façade: ‘Being’ Rather Than ‘Seeming’
This chapter examines a pair of themes — rules of the game and façade. Just as the process of assessing worthwhileness mentioned in the previous chapter led to distracting, noisy internal monologue, so did fre...
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Dialogue: Sensing Relational Encounter Amidst Complexity
The previous three chapters have used three different concepts Buber identified as fundamental to dialogue — turning, being rather than seeming and mutuality — as lenses to analyse the data. The themes surroun...
