Conceptualising managerial and leadership wisdom - how many wise managers and leaders do you know?
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Paper/Presentation Title | Conceptualising managerial and leadership wisdom - how many wise managers and leaders do you know? |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Pedersen, Cec (Author) and Ellsum, William (Author) |
Editors | Kennedy, Jessica and Di Milia, Lee |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 20th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2006) |
Number of Pages | 17 |
Year | 2006 |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISBN | 1921047348 |
Conference/Event | ANZAM 2006: Management: Pragmatism, Philosophy, Priorities |
Event Details | ANZAM 2006: Management: Pragmatism, Philosophy, Priorities Event Date 06 to end of 09 Dec 2006 Event Location Yeppoon, Australia |
Abstract | The term ‘wisdom’ is used frequently in terms of managerial and leadership functioning and development. However, when asked ‘How many wise managers and leaders do you know?’ most people struggle to firstly name people and secondly, to explain what ‘wise or wisdom’ means because they tend to consider wisdom from a particular paradigm – philosophical, spiritual, cultural, psychological or ethical. This conceptual paper raises different perceptions of the meaning of ‘wisdom’ before broadly critiquing literature that deals with wisdom in terms of philosophical, spiritual, cultural, psychological and ethical constructs. This leads to summations that wisdom is largely contextual –someone might be considered wise in one context but not in another – and that a knowledgeable person is not necessarily a wise person. However, wisdom appears to comprise elements of knowledge, integrity and compassion. The paper then discusses wisdom as an ethical construct in management and leadership and concludes with a conceptual discussion of the vexed question ‘can wisdom be developed?’ |
Keywords | wisdom; managerial wisdom; philosophical wisdom; spiritual wisdom; cultural wisdom; ethical wisdom |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 500102. Business ethics |
350709. Organisation and management theory | |
350503. Human resources management | |
Public Notes | Awarded ‘Best Paper’ in the Management Education & Development Stream. No evidence of copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Department of Management and Organisational Behaviour |
WJE Consultancy, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9xz6v/conceptualising-managerial-and-leadership-wisdom-how-many-wise-managers-and-leaders-do-you-know
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