Dynamics of Paradoxical Leadership: Theoretical Frameworks & Empirical Evidences of Balancing.

Paradoxes ubiquitously exist at different levels of organizations. In this symposium, we focus our attention on the dynamics of paradoxical leadership - how do leaders maintain dynamic balancing in paradoxical leadership. Although recent research provide initial empirical evidence on the effectiveness of paradoxical leadership (Zhang et al., 2015), we currently have limited understanding of how leaders perceive balance in paradoxical leadership, how they balance paradoxes when interacting with followers, and how this balancing process unfolds over time. In this symposium we present four papers that advance research on paradoxical leadership by exploring new theoretical perspectives on dynamic balancing, presenting empirical findings that use various methods (qualitative and quantitative methods), and offering insights from different cultural backgrounds. The discussant - Professor Robert E. Quinn, who is among the prominent and distinguished leading scholars of OB and the first to study paradoxical nature of leadership roles in his well-known Competing Value Framework three decades ago, will share his insights on the changing landscapes of paradoxical leadership research over last three decades and how the papers in this symposium proliferate new dimensions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]