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In search of Phronesis : leadership and the art of judgment

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Shotter, J. and Tsoukas, Haridimos (2014) In search of Phronesis : leadership and the art of judgment. Academy of Management Learning & Education, Volume 13 (Number 2). pp. 224-243. doi:10.5465/amle.2013.0201

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Abstract

We explore the process through which people in organizations, especially those in leadership positions, in circumstances marked by ambiguity, surprise, and conflicting values, come to, or arrive at, judgment. Briefly reviewing the (somewhat limited) literature on judgment in management studies, we conclude that its mainly rationalist orientation prevents us (scholars and practitioners alike) from properly grasping important features of the hermeneutical–developmental process involved in coming to a judgment. In particular, the role of emotions, moral agency, language use, and, especially, the selective and integrative nature of perceptual processes, are far too easily ignored. We make the case for a particular notion of judgment understood as Aristotelian “phronesis” (practical wisdom). Phronetic leaders, we argue, are people who, in their search for a way out of their difficulties, have developed a refined capacity to intuitively grasp salient features of ambiguous situations and to constitute a “landscape” of possible paths of response, while driven by the pursuit of the notion of the common good. We seek to shed light on how this is accomplished, by drawing on neo-Aristotelian, phenomenological, and Wittgensteinian philosophy.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title: Academy of Management Learning & Education
Publisher: Academy of Management
ISSN: 1537-260X
Official Date: 1 June 2014
Dates:
DateEvent
1 June 2014Published
12 March 2014Accepted
1 July 2013Submitted
Volume: Volume 13
Number: Number 2
Page Range: pp. 224-243
DOI: 10.5465/amle.2013.0201
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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