Les ambiguïtés axiologiques et normatives du leadership
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In this article, some ambiguities of five styles of leadership (authentic leadership, servant leadership, transformational leadership, ethical leadership, spiritual leadership) will be analyzed. Two types of ambiguities have been described while referring to Paul Ricoeur’s distinction between morality and ethics: the ambiguity related to the grounds of the moral action (emphasis on moral normativity: Kant) and the ambiguity related to the moral optimality of the action (emphasis on the ethical aim of a good life and just institutions: Aristotle). Two styles of leadership have shown only one type of ambiguities: the servant leadership (axiological ambiguity) and the spiritual leadership (normative ambiguity). In the other three styles of leadership, both types of ambiguities were involved.
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