abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the way mindfulness informs how leaders make sense of and navigate paradoxical tensions that arise in their organizations. This study employs a qualitative research methodology, based on synchronous, semi- structured, in-depth interviews of leaders who hold a personal mindfulness practice. Qualitative interviews illuminate how leaders’ communication about paradoxical tensions (e.g., through metaphorical language) reflects the way they experience those tensions. Findings extend the constitutive approach to paradox by demonstrating the way mindfulness informs awareness, emotion, pausing, and self-care. Specifically, this study (1) empirically illustrates how higher-level, dialogic more-than responses to paradox may be used to accomplish both-and responses to paradox, (2) evidences the way discursive consciousness of emotion may generatively inform paradox management, (3) suggests the appropriateness and use of a new paradox management strategy that I term ‘mindful dis/engagement’, and (4) highlights self-care as an others-centered leadership capability. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Communication 2019
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:53718 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Contributors | Town, Sophia (Author), Tracy, Sarah (Advisor), Fairhurst, Gail (Committee member), Adame, Elissa (Committee member), Brummans, Boris (Committee member), Lange, Don (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Format | 222 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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