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Newstead T, Dawkins S, Macklin R, Martin A. Evaluating The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme. LEADERSHIP 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/1742715019899845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This article contributes to an emerging field of virtue-based leadership development scholarship by reporting on the first known empirical evaluation of The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme. This exploratory study seeks to understand if or how The Virtues Project might facilitate the development of good leaders. Our understanding of ‘good’ is informed by the notion of virtue and the philosophy of virtue ethics, and we adopt a critical realist evaluation framework to distil what about The Virtues Project works for whom in which contexts and why. Our study employs a longitudinal comparative case design composed of multiple in-depth interviews with nine leader participants and their colleagues over the duration of five months. Findings indicate that (a) The Virtues Project training was experienced as a trigger event that fostered leaders’ new understandings of what virtue is and how virtues inform behaviour, and (b) The Virtues Project training equipped leaders with language-based strategies to incorporate virtues into their leadership practices. In sum, participating leaders felt that The Virtues Project facilitated the development of their leadership by enabling them to understand and recognize the best in themselves and others (virtues) and to incorporate virtues into their leadership practices. Limitations and future research are discussed.
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- Toby Newstead
- Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, Australia
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- Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, Australia
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- Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, Australia
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- Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, Australia
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We don't need more leaders – We need more good leaders. Advancing a virtues-based approach to leader(ship) development. THE LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Baron L, Parent É. Developing Authentic Leadership Within a Training Context. JOURNAL OF LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES 2014. [DOI: 10.1177/1548051813519501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Based on semistructured interviews with 24 mid-level managers, this study examines the process of developing authentic leadership in a training context. The results revealed a process beginning with an exploration phase, in which participants increased their self-awareness and identified their leadership issues, identified new behaviors likely to address those issues, and tested those behaviors to confirm their effect. This was followed by an integration phase in which the participants reflected on the beneficial effects of those new behaviors and were able to adopt them in their organizational setting. The results also indicate that three phenomena activated by the training practices enable the participants to develop their authentic leadership, namely, a clamp effect, a safety-net effect, and an organizational simulation effect.
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- Louis Baron
- Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada
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