Leading Through Social Distancing: The Future of Work, Corporations and Leadership from Home

Georgiadou, Andri; Antonacopoulou, Elena P.

Abstract

At this critical juncture when the COVID‐19 health crisis has disrupted our ways of living, working and relating to each other, we are perforce to explore and cocreate the Future we want to be part of. Drawing upon feminist theory, we introduce the notion of ‘inclusiveness’ as a fresh conceptualization of the impact of meaning rendering from working, almost irrespective of where work takes place. The ‘new (ab)normal’ that is emerging, is challenging the future of corporations not only in fulfilling their purpose, but also in leading the future leadership necessary to restore the balance between economy and ecology. In this respect, the corporation is more than a workplace, and leadership is more than a relational process. Inclusive leadership as we will elaborated when ‘leading from home’, invites us to rethink social distancing and remote working as a platform for rebuilding the fundamentals of humanity. We propose an agenda for leading on leadership in cocreating the future of work and corporations by outlining themes as well as, an approach to connecting that no longer separates research and business practice.

Citation

Georgiadou, A., & Antonacopoulou, E. P. (2021). Leading Through Social Distancing: The Future of Work, Corporations and Leadership from Home. Gender, Work and Organization, 28(2), 749-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12533

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 13, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Oct 18, 2020
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2021
• Deposit Date: Sep 6, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 19, 2022
• Journal: Gender, Work & Organization
• Print ISSN: 0968-6673
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-0432
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 749-767
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12533
• Keywords: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Gender Studies
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4886623
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gwao.12533