Engaging “Care” Behaviors in Support of Employee and Organizational Wellbeing through Complexity Leadership Theory
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Impact of the Pandemic on Wellbeing and the Challenges Leaders Faced
3. Leadership Communications
Leadership in an uncertain, fast-moving crisis means making oneself available to feel what it is like to be in another’s shoes—to lead with empathy…. It will be incumbent on leaders to put themselves in another’s suffering, to feel with empathy and think with intelligence, and then to use their position of authority to make a path forward for us all.
4. The Significance of Care and Relations
Care is a way of being, that is, it is the key way through which the human-being structures itself and through which it interacts with others in the world. In other words, it is a way of being-in-the-world in which the relations that are established with all things are founded [30].
5. The Importance of Both Male and Female Leadership Behaviors
6. The Impact of Care Behaviors on Relations within Organizations
7. Complexity Leadership Theory in Complex Adaptive Organizations
8. Conclusions and Future Study
Funding
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Stereotypical Male or Masculine (m), and Female or Feminine Leadership Behaviors (w) | |||
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Independent (m) | Certain (m) | Sensitive (w) | Cooperative (w) |
Self-confident (m) | Goal-oriented(m) | Expressive (w) | Intuitive (w) |
Objective (m) | Bias for action (m) | Tactful (w) | Sympathetic (w) |
Logical–rational (m) | Business-oriented (m) | Nurturing (w) | Warm (w) |
Active (m) | Achievement- | Understanding (w) | Receptive (w) |
Energetic(m) | oriented (m) | Helpful (w) | Bias for flow (w) |
Self-reliant (m) | Competitive (m) | Relationship-oriented (w) | Socio-expressive (w) |
Risk-taker (m) | Self-promotional (m) | Holistic (w) | Other-oriented (w) |
Context-independent (m) | Individual (m) | Context-dependent (w) | Interdependent (w) |
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Kolga, M. Engaging “Care” Behaviors in Support of Employee and Organizational Wellbeing through Complexity Leadership Theory. Merits 2023, 3, 405-414. https://doi.org/10.3390/merits3020023
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Chicago/Turabian StyleKolga, Merike. 2023. "Engaging “Care” Behaviors in Support of Employee and Organizational Wellbeing through Complexity Leadership Theory" Merits 3, no. 2: 405-414. https://doi.org/10.3390/merits3020023