What we ask of authenticity: How LGBQ experiences illuminate the possibilities, constraints, and expectations of being an authentic leader

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS
Shannon O’Rourke
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This essay draws on ethnographic work with minority leaders to problematize the reification of how people with privilege experience authenticity on the one hand, and the romanticization of authentic leadership on the other. Whilst the literature on authentic leadership critically engages the concept of authenticity itself, research on lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer (LGBQ) leadership offers empirical insights from the lived experiences of minority leaders. Drawing on both literatures, this essay addresses the challenge of critically engaging minority individuals’ accounts of their lived experiences relating to authentic leadership. The diverse LGBQ people in leadership roles in this UK study articulated struggles around being their “true selves” in leadership roles, as both bodies of literature suggest. Their accounts also raise concerns about how others romanticized LGBQ authenticity, creating expectations about how these minority individuals would perform authenticity for the sake of diversity, inclusion, and transformation. LGBQ leaders seem to develop a pragmatic sense about how and when they do or do not bring their sexualities into their leadership roles. In conclusion, this essay argues for an acknowledgment of how sexuality impacts the conditions for enacting authentic leadership whilst resisting the romanticism of authenticity for the sake of organization goals.
我们对真实性的要求:女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性者的经历如何启示我们成为一名真正领导者的可能性、限制和期望
本文通过对少数群体领导者的人种学研究,一方面对拥有特权的人如何体验真实性的问题提出了质疑,另一方面也对真实领导力的浪漫化提出了质疑。关于真实领导力的文献批判性地探讨了真实性概念本身,而关于女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和同性恋(LGBQ)领导力的研究则从少数群体领导者的生活经历中提供了经验性的见解。这篇文章借鉴了这两方面的文献,探讨了如何以批判的眼光看待少数群体个人讲述的与真实领导力有关的生活经历这一挑战。在英国的这项研究中,担任领导职务的男女同性恋、双性恋和变性者(LGBQ)阐述了他们在领导岗位上 "真实自我 "的挣扎,正如这两部文献所指出的那样。他们的叙述也引起了人们的关注,即其他人是如何将 LGBQ 的真实性浪漫化的,从而对这些少数群体个人如何为了多样性、包容性和变革而表现出真实性产生了期望。LGBQ 领导者似乎对如何以及何时将自己的性取向融入领导角色中形成了一种务实的意识。总之,本文认为,在抵制为了组织目标而追求真实性的浪漫主义的同时,应认识到性特征是如何影响实施真实领导的条件的。
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ACS Applied Bio Materials
ACS Applied Bio Materials Chemistry-Chemistry (all)
CiteScore
9.40
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