Prozac leadership and the limits of positive thinking
By David L. Collinson. 2012
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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Anouk Decuypere
- Mats Alvesson
- David L. Collinson
- Katja Einola
- Wilmar B. Schaufeli
- Arnold B. Bakker
- Evangelia Demerouti
- Toon W. Taris
In Strategy and Management
Citations in the corpus
- Leadership and work engagement: Exploring explanatory mechanisms (2020, background): “In addition, these so-called positive leadership styles feed into the hero myth of leadership (Yukl, 1999), that some scholars have even named “prozac for practitioners” (Alvesson and Einola, 2019: 392; Collinson, 2012).”
- Warning for excessive positivity: Authentic leadership and other traps in leadership studies (2019, background): “Indeed, these forms of leadership studies can work as Prozac (Collinson, 2012) for practitioners, aspiring leaders, and perhaps also leadership scholars, possibly too eager to engage in “feel-good studies”.”
- Dichotomies, dialectics and dilemmas: New directions for critical leadership studies? (2014, background): “…organizational practices.12 In an earlier article in this journal, I argued that leaders can invest in excessively positive discourses that subsequently produce counter-productive and sometimes cataclysmic results at SAGE Publications on May 13, 2015lea.sagepub.comDownloaded from (Collinson, 2012).”