Department of Organization

cslioa

Department of Organization

  • Centre for Public Organization, Value and Innovation (POVI)
Camilla
Sløk
Associate professor
,
PhD


Room: KIL/14.A-4.82
Tel:
+4538153631
, Mobile:
+4522812240
E-mail: csl.ioa@cbs.dk
Presentation
Leadership and ethics
The key word for my research is ethics, dilemmas, and clashes of values.

I have done intensive studies on expectations of responsibility in leadership, and how guilt occurs when organizations fail, calling for the leader to act.

Further, I have done research on 1) clashes of values in school leadership, between professional and political expectations to leadership and 2) clashes of values in leadership in the national Danish Lutheran church, where volunteers, professionals, and political actors do not always share values on what organization and leadership is about.

My first international paper was in 1997 on reframing of problems, in order to find new solutions: "Short-term Counseling and the Use of Reframing", Journal of Pastoral Psychology Vol. 46, no.2, 1997, s.119-130
 
Gold Medal
Camilla Sløk received in 1996 Copenhagen University’s gold medal. 
Copenhagen University’s Gold Medal is an award that is given to a student at Copenhagen University for an excellent thesis. The excellency is based on the quality of the thesis. The thesis is to answer research questions that are formulated by professors at Copenhagen University. Camilla Sløk received the prize Gold Medal for her thesis ”Kaskader af differens: Niklas Luhmanns religionsfilosofi” (Cascading of differences: Niklas Luhmann’s philopsophy of religion). The thesis show how the sociologist Niklas Luhmann draw on theological traditions in his sociological perspective on society. Luhmann perceives the dialectics between contingency and necessity as essential for the dynamics of social systems. This distinction is inspired by theology. Luhmann points out the particularity of religion as being a system which claims necessity is an intrinsic dimension of religious communication. This stands in stark contrast to contemporary society which claims that everything is contingent.
 
DSEB’s excellent research dissemination award
Camilla Sløk received in 2018 DSEB’s Award for excellent research dissemination. Camilla Sløk has currently done research in public leadership. The Award was granted for her research in responsibility and guilt in leadership, particularly her book : ”Blod, sved og tårer: Om ansvar og skyld i ledelse” (DJØF Forlag, 2014) presents the findings on leaders’ understanding of guilt and responsibility. Camilla Sløk shows how stakeholders expect leaders to admit guilt, when things go wrong in their organization, while leaders in contrast do not accept that guilt is part of their leadership. Research shows that leaders see faults; error; deceit; corruption, etc. in their organization as not their responsibility. 

 

Primary research areas
  • Leadership
  • Ethics and leadership
  • Conflicting values in leadership
  • Responsibility and guilt in leadership
  • Public sector
Social media
Links

Magt og omsorg i det eksistentielle lederskab

Website

Article on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Mandag Morgen

Article on Gift economy in Berlingske

CBS research video

Blod, Sved og Tårer

Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/cslioa
Courses

Eksistens og ledelse på MPG/MPA

Selected publications

Magt og omsorg i det eksistentielle lederskab
København : Dansk Psykologisk Forlag 2020, 158 p.

Guilt
In: The Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology. ed. /Stefan Schwarzkopf. Abingdon : Routledge 2020, p. 72-80 (Routledge International Handbooks)

Guilt, Responsibility, and Leadership
In: Handbook of Business Legitimacy: Responsibility, Ethics and Society. . ed. /Jacob Dahl Rendtorff. Cham : Springer 2020, p. 141-157

”Blod, sved og tårer” : Om ansvar og skyld i ledelse .
København : Djøf Forlag 2014

"Disorganization as religion: organization in the Danish Evangelical Lutheran National Church". Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Volume 16, No.1-2, 2009

"Here I stand: Lutheran stubbornnes in the Danish Prime Minister's office during The Danish Cartoon Crisis" (2009). European Journal of Social Theory 12(2)
 

Publications sorted by:
2023
Camilla Sløk / Guilt
In: Encyclopedia of Stakeholder Management. ed. /Jacob Dahl Rendtorff; Maria Bonnafous-Boucher. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2023, p. 134-139 (Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series)
Encyclopedia chapter > peer review
2021
Camilla Sløk / Ansvar og skyld i corona-ledelse
In: Omtanke, No. 5, 1.2021, p. 20-25
Journal article
Camilla Sløk / Opgør med den folkekirkelige ledelsesstruktur
In: Kritisk Forum for Praktisk Teologi, No. 164, 25.6.2021
Journal article
2020
Camilla Sløk / At magte omsorgen
In: Erhvervspsykologi, Vol. 18, No. 4, 12.2020, p. 4-15
Journal article > peer review
Camilla Sløk / Guilt
In: The Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology. ed. /Stefan Schwarzkopf. Abingdon : Routledge 2020, p. 72-80 (Routledge International Handbooks)
Book chapter > peer review
Camilla Sløk / Guilt, Responsibility, and Leadership
In: Handbook of Business Legitimacy: Responsibility, Ethics and Society. . ed. /Jacob Dahl Rendtorff. Cham : Springer 2020, p. 141-157
Book chapter > peer review
Camilla Sløk / Magt og omsorg i det eksistentielle lederskab
København : Dansk Psykologisk Forlag 2020, 158 p.
Book > peer review
Camilla Sløk / Theology, Responsibility, and Business Legitimacy
In: Handbook of Business Legitimacy: Responsibility, Ethics and Society. . ed. /Jacob Dahl Rendtorff. Cham : Springer 2020, p. 203-216
Book chapter > peer review
Carsten Greve; Camilla Sløk / When Dialogue Doesn’t Work : School Reforms and Lessons from Denmark.
In: Policy Design and Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2020, p. 401-413
Journal article > peer review
2019
Camilla Sløk / The Function of Illness Absence Conversations in a Danish Welfare System
Abstract from Lumen Symposium, 2019
Conference abstract for conference
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Research Projects
Outside activities

2022
Frederiksberg Kommune - Presentation
November 24 (2 hours)

Københavns Kommune - Presentation
November 10 (2 hours)

Dansk Industri (DI) - Presentation
October 27 (20 minutes)

Eliaskirken - Presentation
October 5 (2 hours)

Folkeuniversitetet - Board
August 29 and October 25 (2x3 hours)

Vurderingsstyrelsen - Presentation
September 22 (1 hour)

Københavns Stift - Sparring
September 1 + September 30, August 29,
June 2, April 4 (8 hours)

Præsternes Efteruddannelse - Presentation
March 31 (3 hours)


2021
Folkekirken, September 1

Lecture

Arbejdsmiljøkonsulenter, August 30
Lecture

Blå Kors, August 16
Lecture

KFUMs Sociale Arbejde, April 16
Lecture

Folkeuniversitetet
Folkeuniversitetes bestyrelse
2x 4 møder

 

2020

Gymnasiefællesskabet

Lecture

 

Mariehjemmene

Lecture

 

Almene Boligers Bestyrelser

Lecture

 

Gymnasierektorer

Lecture

 

BUPL

Lecture

 

Folkeuniversitetet

Board member

 

Almene Boligers bestyrelser

Presentation: "Ansvar og skyld i ledelse"

 

KFUK's sociale arbejde, Nyborg Strand

Presentation: "Ansvar og skyld i ledelse"

 

2019
 
Holbæk Kommune
 
Lecture: "Mod i ledelse"
 
 
Syddjurs Kommune
 
Lecture: "Ansvar og skyld i offentlig ledelse"
 
 
2018
 
Holbæk Sygehus
 
Lecture: "Hvordan overlever man sit arbejde?"
 
 
VUC Lyngby
 
Lecture: "Gaven i forandringen: Reform og forandringsprocesser"
 
 
Politikreds. Glostrup Park Hotel
 
Lecture: "Offentlig ledelse i forandringer og krise"