2018
DOI: 10.20319/pijss.2018.43.5775
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A Good Leader Based on Graduating Students’ Drawings: A Social Representations Approach

Abstract: This research examines graduating students' conceptions of a good leader and how positive leadership qualities are communicated visually. In order to address this research task, fifteen graduating students in a Finnish upper-secondary vocational college were asked to draw a picture of a good leader and elucidate their drawings verbally. Theoretically, the research draws on the theory of social representations and regards the participants' drawings as reflecting social representations of leadership among gradua… Show more

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“…Among the students who were interviewed and who benefited from mobility, some came with a new view on what being a good leader means. Thus, as in other experiments of this kind, they considered a good leader should be approachable, caring, supportive and responsible, as communicated through a formal or casual but neat physical appearance (Martikainen, 2018).…”
Section: Developmentmentioning
confidence: 83%
“…Among the students who were interviewed and who benefited from mobility, some came with a new view on what being a good leader means. Thus, as in other experiments of this kind, they considered a good leader should be approachable, caring, supportive and responsible, as communicated through a formal or casual but neat physical appearance (Martikainen, 2018).…”
Section: Developmentmentioning
confidence: 83%
“…In the field of management and organizational studies, arts-based research includes a wide variety of approaches and materials, such as drawing and painting (Mannay, 2010;Martikainen, 2018a, 2018b), photography, videos (LeBaron, Jarzabkowski, Pratt, & Fetzer, 2018Shortt & Warren, 2017;Toraldo, Islam, & Mangia, 2018;Warren, 2005), creative movement, and dance (Biehl-Missal & Springborg, 2015;Hujala et al, 2015). In addition to producing visual research PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences ISSN 2454-5899 data, participants have also produced verbal data based on reflection on visual materials, such as paintings and media images (Klenke, 2014;Martikainen & Hujala, 2017).…”
Section: Literature Review On Arts-based Research In Social Sciencesmentioning
confidence: 99%