The Strength of Difference
Itineraries of Atypical Bosses
Seiten
2018
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
9781787145825 (ISBN)
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
9781787145825 (ISBN)
Being different is widely recognised as a social handicap and a source of stigmatisation. This book shows, through sixty interviews of atypical leaders, that difference can also be a strength. It tells the stories of people who were able to turn their destinies around.
Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have succeeded in avoiding socially pre-determined outcomes by
turning their differences into resources. This did not, however, mean that they
became "normal". They are leaders, but they remain excluded from convened social
positions.This distance leads them to listen, to look upon, and to
analyse their environments, their pasts and their relations with others much
more than "normal" people do. Furthermore, this distance facilitates
entrepreneurial risk-taking and the creation of networks, complicity and
solidarity. It requires the mobilization of extraordinary social intelligence.
This book describes the
processes through which stigma can be mastered, if not forgotten. It also
explains that the position of outsiders, in the broadest meaning of the term,
translates the social experiences of all those who belong to several worlds,
and who find themselves condemned simultaneously to engagement and detachment.
Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have succeeded in avoiding socially pre-determined outcomes by
turning their differences into resources. This did not, however, mean that they
became "normal". They are leaders, but they remain excluded from convened social
positions.This distance leads them to listen, to look upon, and to
analyse their environments, their pasts and their relations with others much
more than "normal" people do. Furthermore, this distance facilitates
entrepreneurial risk-taking and the creation of networks, complicity and
solidarity. It requires the mobilization of extraordinary social intelligence.
This book describes the
processes through which stigma can be mastered, if not forgotten. It also
explains that the position of outsiders, in the broadest meaning of the term,
translates the social experiences of all those who belong to several worlds,
and who find themselves condemned simultaneously to engagement and detachment.
Norbert Alter is a Professor of Sociology at Paris Dauphine University, France. He specialises in the sociology of organisations and favours an empirically grounded understanding of the world of business and the social bonds that develop there.
Introduction Chapter 1. The Mark of Stigmatisation
Chapter 2. The Stranger's Gaze
Chapter 3. Effort, Audacity and Morality
Chapter 4. Close and Far Away
Chapter 5. Passage and Brokering
Chapter
6. Being Oneself
Conclusion
Methodological Annex
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion |
| Verlagsort | Bingley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 384 g |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781787145825 / 9781787145825 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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