Leadership and the ethics of care – a philosophical analysis (4A)

This two-part post continues the series of posts on caring leadership by focusing on a paper by Tomkins and Simpson titled “Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective.” A philosophical perspective requires leadership studies to examine what happens “when there is no functionalist blueprint, no clear sense to be made, no comfort in transparency.”

The authors suggest that caring leadership is largely practiced in one or the other of two modes of intervention. One mode is a “leaping-in” intervention and the other is “leaping-ahead” intervention. Overall, the authors posit that much of the care ethics literature provides “too tempting a recipe to follow.”

The first part of this post discusses the paper.… Read the rest