Looking back at leadership in the Heroic Age
This paper looks at leadership characteristics of the Heroic Age explorers Gerlache, Drygalski, Nordenskjöld, Charcot, Filchner, Mawson and the better known Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen. The creation of heroic images and how these change over time is explored and the way different cultural and pol...
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ftunivcanter:oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/14148 2023-05-15T13:49:25+02:00 Looking back at leadership in the Heroic Age McTurk, Lesley 2013 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14148 English en eng http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14148 All Rights Reserved Theses / Dissertations 2013 ftunivcanter 2022-09-08T13:34:50Z This paper looks at leadership characteristics of the Heroic Age explorers Gerlache, Drygalski, Nordenskjöld, Charcot, Filchner, Mawson and the better known Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen. The creation of heroic images and how these change over time is explored and the way different cultural and political contexts impacted on the leadership styles of these men. A description of the Antarctic environment at the time, and the resources available to endure its hardships, shows the limits to which expedition leaders were tested. Whether successful expeditions were due to special leadership characteristics, or other qualities such as scientific knowledge and interest, is explored through the backgrounds and styles of the nine leaders. Finally, making comparisons between these leaders across time and cultural and historic contexts is challenged. This is a feature of contemporary management literature, and their interpretation of the leadership characteristics and use of examples of Heroic Age leaders is critiqued. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctic University of Canterbury, Christchurch: UC Research Repository Antarctic The Antarctic Shackleton Charcot ENVELOPE(139.017,139.017,-69.367,-69.367) Gerlache ENVELOPE(99.033,99.033,-66.500,-66.500) Drygalski ENVELOPE(-61.000,-61.000,-64.717,-64.717) Nordenskjöld ENVELOPE(-60.583,-60.583,-64.667,-64.667) |
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This paper looks at leadership characteristics of the Heroic Age explorers Gerlache, Drygalski, Nordenskjöld, Charcot, Filchner, Mawson and the better known Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen. The creation of heroic images and how these change over time is explored and the way different cultural and political contexts impacted on the leadership styles of these men. A description of the Antarctic environment at the time, and the resources available to endure its hardships, shows the limits to which expedition leaders were tested. Whether successful expeditions were due to special leadership characteristics, or other qualities such as scientific knowledge and interest, is explored through the backgrounds and styles of the nine leaders. Finally, making comparisons between these leaders across time and cultural and historic contexts is challenged. This is a feature of contemporary management literature, and their interpretation of the leadership characteristics and use of examples of Heroic Age leaders is critiqued. |
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