1 option
Against all odds : leadership and the Handmaid's Tale / by Cristina de Mello e Souza Wildermuth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wildermuth, Cris.
- Series:
- Exploring effective leadership practices through popular culture.
- Exploring effective leadership practices through popular culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale.
- Atwood, Margaret.
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Testaments.
- Handmaid's tale (Television program).
- Leadership.
- Leadership in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
- Summary:
- Against All Oddsexplores leadership through the lens of the characters from HULU's TV adaptation of The Handmaid's Taleand the original novel by Margaret Atwood, alongside Atwood's more recent sequel The Testaments(2019), analyzing the ethical dimensions of leadership.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Group of Women Near the Border
- A Hopeless World
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Was June the Only Leader?
- Do We Live in a Dystopian World?
- Learning Through Popular Culture
- Yes, You Can Be a Leader
- Positionality
- Growing Up Female
- Leadership is Not for Me
- Application Time
- Book Map
- Part I: Being a Leader
- 1: Introducing Leadership
- What is Leadership?
- Leadership or Management?
- Leadership Myths
- Summary
- Note
- 2: Leadership Trait Theories
- Exploring Personality in Gilead
- Neuroticism
- Extraversion
- Openness to Experiences
- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
- Who Is the Ideal Leader in The Handmaid's Tale?
- 3: The Portrait of a Leader
- Leadership Mental Models
- Leadership Models in Gilead
- 4: Leadership and Power
- Referent Power
- Expert Power
- Positional Power
- Coercive Power
- Reward Power
- 5: Followership
- Leadership or Followership?
- The Importance of Followership
- High Support and High Challenge (Partners)
- High Support and Low Challenge (Implementers)
- Low Support and High Challenge (Individualists)
- Low Support and Low Challenge (Resources)
- Shared Leadership
- Micro-leadership Moments
- Part II: The Roles We Play
- 6: The Roles We Play
- Introduction to Role Theory
- Role Scripts
- Role Clarity and Conflict
- Roles and Gender
- Motherhood is Womanhood
- Role Lessons
- 7: The Gilead Ceiling
- Leading While Female
- Female Leaders: Perceptions and Evaluations
- Women's Barriers in the Workplace.
- The Female Financial Burden
- About Gender Norms
- About Your Organization
- Part III: Complexity and Crisis
- 8: The Gilead System
- Systems Theory, Leadership, and The Handmaid's Tale
- Back to Gilead
- What is a Crisis?
- Leadership and Complexity
- Complex Crises
- 9: Ordinary People as Leaders
- Resistance Movements
- The Heroism of Ordinary People
- Risk-Taking and Resistance
- 10: It Takes a Village
- Trust and Vulnerability
- Positive Conflict
- Commitment
- Accountability
- Result Orientation
- 11: Times of Change
- Culture
- Culture Shock
- Adaptive Leadership
- Disappointment
- A World without Losses
- Emergence and Change
- Part IV: The Gilead Dilemma
- 12: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Gilead?
- Ethical Lenses and Theories
- Kantian Ethics
- Utilitarianism
- John Rawls and the Veil of Ignorance
- Virtue Ethics
- Care, Justice, and the Circles of Ethics
- 13: Who is a Moral Leader?
- How Rational are We?
- Rationality and Ethics
- Moral Blindness
- Ethical Fading
- Guilt and Self-Deception
- Moral Steps
- 14: Moral Courage
- What is Courage?
- Leadership is Dangerous
- Bravery or Stupidity?
- The Courage of Followers
- Part V: Moving Forward
- 15: Passing the Baton
- What is Leadership Emergence?
- Emergent Leadership: Nicole
- Followership in the Context of Emergence: Hannah
- Followership and Sacrifice: Becka
- Formal Authority: Aunt Lydia
- Warmth, Competence, and Leadership Emergence
- Conclusion: Could it Happen Again?
- How Did Gilead Emerge?
- Leadership is in Your Hands.
- From Ordinary to Extraordinary
- And at Times, We Fall
- Moving Forward
- Appendix
- The Handmaids
- The Aunts
- The Marthas
- The Commanders' Wives
- The Commanders
- Additional Characters
- The New Generation."
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wildermuth, Cristina de Mello-e-Souza Against All Odds
- ISBN:
- 9781804553367
- OCLC:
- 1450836798
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.