THE ART OF CARING LEADERSHIP: HOW LEADING WITH HEART UPLIFTS TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS

One of the challenges of teaching nursing in a rural area is developing a creative way to define and express leadership abilities. The Art and Nursing departments of Oklahoma Panhandle State University addressed this challenge by pairing a nursing student and art student, who worked together to create a tangible expression of caring. To meet the challenge of mentor shortage in rural areas, the author developed an e-mail mentor program for nursing-leadership students. The art of story as an intervention was used to help students define their leadership roles by interviewing a historic nursing leader in their geographic area. Students were also encouraged to correspond with their legislators and begin a dialogue about nursing and health care.

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An action-oriented perspective on caring leadership: a qualitative study of higher education administrators’ positive leadership experiences

International Journal of Leadership in Education ◽

10.1080/13603124.2013.770077 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 482-496 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Satu Uusiautti

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Higher Education Administrators ◽

Positive Leadership ◽

Caring Leadership ◽

Leadership Experiences ◽

Education Administrators

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The development of compassionate and caring leadership among adolescents

Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy ◽

10.1080/17408980600708346 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 141-157 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Tom Martinek ◽

Tammy Schilling ◽

Don Hellison

Keyword(s):

Caring Leadership

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Caring leadership as Nietzschean slave morality

Leadership ◽

10.1177/1742715020974910 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 174271502097491

Author(s):

Leah Tomkins

Keyword(s):

Critical Reflection ◽

Care Ethics ◽

The Self ◽

The Other ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Breeding Ground ◽

Leadership Models ◽

Caring Leadership ◽

The World

In this paper, I respond to calls for more critical reflection on the power dynamics of caring leadership. I consider how a combination of care and impotence might unfold as Nietzsche’s ‘slave morality’, crystallised in the phenomenon of ressentiment. At the heart of slave morality is an inversion of values in which everything represented by the Other is denigrated so that the slave can find meaning and solace in his own place in the world. The Nietzschean inversion transforms impotence, inferiority and submission into virtue, identity and accomplishment. In contrast to recent elaborations of ressentiment in followers, I argue that slave morality is something to which leaders, especially caring leaders, are also vulnerable. When caring leadership awakens or exposes the slave-within, we are unable to take charge of – or responsibility for – ourselves, because we have ceded control of the self to forces beyond the self. This is the risk of ‘care ethics’ as a systemic inversion of values which constructs an ideology out of letting others define who and what we are. It creates a breeding ground for ressentiment, feeding off unspoken and unspeakable grievances about the injustices of one’s lot, especially those involving a clash between the rhetoric of empowerment and the experience of impotence. The Nietzschean warning is: Be wary of leadership models which might look and even feel nice, but which turn self-sacrifice into virtue and silence into necessity.

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