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Against All Odds: Leadership and the Handmaid's Tale

ISBN: 978-1-80455-337-4, eISBN: 978-1-80455-334-3

Publication date: 13 August 2024

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Wildermuth, C.d.M.e.S. (2024), "Index", Against All Odds: Leadership and the Handmaid's Tale (Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 179-182. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-334-320241026

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Copyright © 2024 Cristina de Mello e Souza Wildermuth


INDEX

Accountability
, 96–97

Act of terrorism
, 85

Adaptive leadership
, 103–104

Agency
, 70–71, 141–142

Agentic traits
, 142

Agents and types
, 81

Agreeableness
, 28, 32

Alternating leadership
, 48

American Civil Rights Union (ACLU)
, 6

Apples to Apples
, 8

Aristotelean ethics
, 124

Assertiveness
, 141

Authority
, 19

Autonomy
, 112

Big Five Inventory, The
, 33

Boiling
, 82

Bravery
, 135

“Broken rung” phenomenon
, 69

Care
, 119–120

ethics
, 124

for others
, 142

Change
, 106–107

Character
, 132

Charisma
, 27

Charismatic leadership
, 24

Child marriage
, 5

Circles of ethics
, 119–120

Climate change
, 2, 8, 48

Coercive power
, 43–44

Collaboration
, 93

Commanders
, 2

Commitment
, 95–96

Communion
, 70–71, 141–142, 147

Competence
, 147

Complexity
, 81–82

Confidence
, 142

Conscientiousness
, 28, 32

Consequentialism
, 123

Consequentialist theories
, 112–113

Copying
, 81

Courage
, 131–134

(see also Moral courage)
of followers
, 135–136

COVID pandemic
, 2

Crack-up, The
, 48

Crisis
, 80–81

Culture
, 101–102

shock
, 103

Decisiveness
, 142

Deontology
, 123

Determination
, 27

Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning
, 82

Disagreement
, 95

Disappointment
, 104–105

Distributed leadership
, 48

Diversity
, 81–82

Dominance
, 141

Double bind phenomenon
, 70–71

Drug traffickers
, 79

Elements
, 79–80

Emergence
, 106–107

Equality
, 112

Ethical decision-making
, 125

Ethical fading
, 127

Ethical lenses and theories
, 112–113

Ethics
, 125

Ethics of care
, 111

Everyday Leadership
, 54

Existential threats
, 89

Expert power
, 41–42

Extraversion
, 28, 30–31

Famine
, 48

Fate
, 27

Female financial burden
, 71–72

Female genital mutilation
, 5

Female leaders
, 68–70

perceptions and evaluations
, 69–70

Five Factor Model
, 28

Followers
, 4, 47–48

Followership
, 47, 123

application time
, 55

in context of emergence
, 144–145

high support and high challenge
, 50–51

high support and low challenge
, 51–52

importance of
, 49–53

leadership or
, 48–49

low support and high challenge
, 52

low support and low challenge
, 52–53

micro-leadership moments
, 54–55

and sacrifice
, 145–146

shared leadership
, 53–54

Formal authority
, 19, 146

Fusion
, 145

Game of Thrones
, 37

Gender biases
, 72

Gender roles
, 62–63

Gilead ceiling
, 67

application time
, 72

female financial burden
, 71–72

female leaders
, 68–70

women’s barriers in workplace
, 70–71

Gilead system
, 77

application time
, 83

complex crises
, 82–83

crisis
, 80–81

exploring personality in
, 30–32

leadership and complexity
, 81–82

leadership models in
, 37–38

systems theory, leadership, and The Handmaid’s Tale
, 78–79

Glass ceilings
, 67

Great man theories
, 9

Guilt
, 128

Handmaid’s Tale, The (TV series)
, 1–4, 23, 37, 50, 60, 93

artistic expressions in
, 31

conventional elements
, 38

Dystopian World
, 4–6

Gilead system
, 77–79

ideal leader in
, 32

key characters in
, 120

leadership lessons
, 85

universe
, 43

Handmaids
, 126

Happiness
, 118

Hero with a Thousand Faces, The
, 142

Heroes
, 102

Heroic leaders
, 23–24, 48

Heroic women
, 70

Heroism of ordinary people
, 87–88

Honor killings
, 5

Hunger
, 8

Hunger Games, The
, 6

Ideal leader
, 29, 32

Implicit Leadership Theory (ILT)
, 12–13, 35

Importance
, 94

Intelligence
, 27

Interconnections
, 79–80

Intrinsic Leadership Theory
, 141

Judgment
, 132

Justice
, 119–120

Kantian ethics
, 113–114

Kantianism
, 111, 123

Kindness
, 142

Last of Us, The
, 6

Leader–follower dichotomy
, 50

Leaders
, 103

invisible map
, 22–23

magic telescope
, 21–22

superheroes
, 23–24

Leadership
, 10–12, 17–18, 48–49, 78–79, 81–82, 123, 134–135

application time
, 25

management
, 19–20

mental models
, 35–37

models in Gilead
, 37–38

myths
, 20–24

Leadership emergence
, 141

application time
, 147

followership and sacrifice
, 145–146

followership in context of emergence
, 144–145

formal authority
, 146

Nicole
, 142–144

warmth, competence, and
, 147

Leadership trait theories
, 27

application time
, 33

exploring personality in Gilead
, 30–32

personality
, 29–30

Learning through popular culture
, 6–8

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ)
, 6

Management
, 19–20

Mayday resistance movement
, 4

Micro-leadership moments
, 48, 54–55

Monopoly
, 8

Moral blindness
, 126–127

Moral character
, 133–134

Moral courage
, 132

application time
, 136

bravery or stupidity
, 135

leadership
, 134–135

Moral dilemma
, 111

application time
, 120

care, justice, and circles of ethics
, 119–120

ethical lenses and theories
, 112–113

Kantian ethics
, 113–114

utilitarianism
, 114–115

Veil of Ignorance, the
, 115–117

virtue ethics
, 117–119

Moral judgment
, 132–133

Moral leader

application time
, 130

ethical fading
, 127

guilt and self-deception
, 128

moral blindness
, 126–127

moral steps
, 129

rationality and ethics
, 125

Moral motivation
, 133

Moral reasoning
, 125

theories
, 112

Moral sensitivity
, 132

Moral steps
, 129

Motherhood
, 63–64

Motivation
, 132

NEO IPIP
, 33

Neuroticism
, 28, 30–31

Official authority
, 19

Official power
, 40

Openness to experiences
, 28, 31

Ordinary people as leaders
, 85

application time
, 91

heroism of ordinary people
, 87–88

resistance movements
, 86–87

risk-taking and resistance
, 89–90

Organizational voice
, 43

Over-emergence
, 142

Participative safety
, 95

Personal power
, 40

Personality
, 29–30

Physical courage
, 132

Pictionary
, 8

Political violence, reaction to
, 89–90

Portrait of leader
, 35

application time
, 38

leadership mental models
, 35–37

leadership models in Gilead
, 37–38

Positional power
, 40, 42–43

Positionality
, 9

Positive conflict
, 95

Poverty
, 8

Power
, 39

application time
, 45

coercive
, 43–44

expert
, 41–42

positional
, 42–43

referent
, 40–41

reward
, 44–45

Practice of Adaptive Leadership, The
, 146

Profit-and-loss (P&L)
, 69

Psychological courage
, 132

Purpose
, 79–80

Rationality
, 112, 125

Rawlsianism
, 111, 123

Reasoned judgments
, 125

Referent power
, 40–41

Resistance
, 89–90

movements
, 86–87

Result orientation
, 97–98

Reward power
, 44–45

Risk-taking
, 89–90

Rituals
, 102

Roe v. Wade
, 6

Role clarity and conflict
, 61–62

Role lessons
, 65

Role scripts
, 60–61

Role theorists
, 60

Role theory
, 59–60

application time
, 65

and gender
, 62–63

motherhood
, 63–64

role clarity and conflict
, 61–62

role lessons
, 65

role scripts
, 60–61

Safety and protection
, 89–90

Same-sex relations
, 5

Self-confidence
, 27

Self-deception
, 128

Self-preservation
, 79

Sensibility
, 112

Sensitivity
, 132

Servant leadership
, 18

Shared leadership
, 48, 53–54

So Far from Home (2012)
, 23

Social Intuitionist Model of Moral Judgment
, 124–125

Social mobility
, 89–90

Social networks, participation in
, 89–90

Social role theory
, 63

Stupidity
, 135

Symbols
, 102

Systems theory
, 77–79

Systems thinking
, 79

Task-focused conflict
, 95

Team accountability
, 96

Team commitment
, 95

Team effectiveness model
, 93

Teamwork
, 93

Teleological theories
, 112

Terrorism
, 8

Testaments, The
, 2, 5, 44–45, 143, 146

Theory of Justice
, 112

Times of change
, 101

adaptive leadership
, 103–104

application time
, 107

culture
, 101–102

culture shock
, 103

disappointment
, 104–105

emergence and change
, 106–107

world without losses
, 105–106

Traditional power
, 40

Trust
, 94

Utilitarian theories
, 113

Utilitarianism
, 111, 114–115, 123

Values
, 102

Veil of Ignorance, the
, 113, 115–117

Violence
, 8

Virtue
, 124

Virtue Ethics
, 111, 117–119

Vision
, 21–22

Vulnerability
, 94

War
, 48

Warmth
, 147

Wicked problems
, 82

Willingness
, 94

Woman’s Place, A
, 77

Women’s barriers in workplace
, 70–71