TITLE:
Diversity and Leadership Literature, Critical Intersections—Leading as a By-Product of Diversity
AUTHORS:
Stephanie Kelly, Tony Carton
KEYWORDS:
Diversity, Leadership, Critical, Intersectionality, Methodology, Literature Review
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.5,
May
29,
2020
ABSTRACT: We consider recent literature addressing intersections of critical leadership
and critical diversity in health and social services, engaging critically and
sociologically with how leadership engages with diversity, how diversity engages with leadership. By reviewing the extant literature,
we contend that leadership and diversity are not fixed entities but moveable
feasts rarely amenable to easy scrutiny. We found several sources engaging the critical intersection of leadership and diversity in practice beginning to
present a decade ago, and increasing in the past five years which consistently
express growing dissatisfaction with traditional methodologies which overlook
issues of power, context and ambiguity, and which espouse an urgency to access
updated methodologies. We discuss this literature, proposing analytical
approaches, engaging intersectional insights, and consider some of the
implications of these findings. We conclude that the imagined binaries,
leadership and diversity are more often in practice inverted where leadership
develops unassumingly as a by-product of diversity.