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Beyond Rational Persuasion: How Leaders Change Moral Norms
HEADLINE: how formal leaders successfully break and thereby create moral norms
We argue that formal leaders, embedded in their practices’ grounding, clarifying, and organizing norms, get captivated by anomalies and respond to them by taking moral risks, which, if practically successful, create a new normative order.
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Title: Beyond Rational Persuasion: How Leaders Change Moral Norms - Charles Spinosa, Matthew Hancocks, Haridimos Tsoukas, Billy Glennon.
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Keywords: Leadership, Morality, Norms, Practice, Moral luck, Moral entrepreneurship, Institutionalism
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Date produced: : 21 September 2021
Scholars are increasingly examining how formal leaders of organizations change moral norms. The prominent accounts overemphasize the role of rational persuasion. We focus, instead, on how formal leaders successfully break and thereby create moral norms. We draw on Dreyfus’s ontology of cultural paradigms and Williams’s moral luck to develop our framework for viewing leader-driven radical norm the change. We argue that formal leaders, embedded in their practices’ grounding, clarifying, and organizing norms, get captivated by anomalies and respond to them by taking moral risks, which, if practically successful, create a new normative order. We illustrate the framework with Churchill’s actions in 1940 and Anita Roddick’s Body Shop. Last, we discuss normative orders, when ordinary leaders change norms, evil, and further research.
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