Title: Leadership and the 'right to respect' – on honour and shame in emotionally charged management settings

Authors: Alf Rehn, Marcus Lindahl

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Abo Akademi University, Henriksgatan 7, FIN-20500, Abo, Finland. ' Department of Engineering Sciences, Division of Industrial Engineering & Management, Uppsala University, Angstrom 751 21, Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract: Honour, as a concept, is at times seen as implicit in leadership and the working of peer groups, but has rarely been explicitly discussed in management studies. This paper presents honour as a key category in socio-moral contexts, and discusses how it and related concepts, such as respect, shame and pride, affect leadership contexts. We argue, through a discussion on honour as it has been studied in, for example, sociology and anthropology, that studies thereof can be a promising avenue for developing the way in which complex leadership settings and exchanges are analysed.

Keywords: honour; respect; social feelings; group emotions; leadership; management; shame; pride; emotional management.

DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2011.037783

European Journal of International Management, 2011 Vol.5 No.1, pp.62 - 79

Published online: 11 Jan 2015 *

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