Steve Taylor| Worcester Polytechnic Institute

My research is focused in two areas: Organizational aesthetics takes seriously the idea that management is as much an art as it is a science, and applies art-based scholarship and practice to management and organizations. Reflective practice is the ability to analyze our own actions and learn from that how to be more effective, ethical, and artful as managers and leaders. At the heart of my work as a researcher and teacher, is my own practice as a playwright. My plays have been performed in England, France, Poland, Canada, New Zealand, Italy, and the USA. From my work in the theater, I have come to realize that learning is a whole body sport and this belief informs both my research and teaching.

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Scholarly Work

Professor Taylors's research focuses on Organizational Aesthetics and Reflective Practice.

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Featured works:

Creed W.E.D., Taylor S.S., Hudson B.A., (2020). Institutional Aesthetics: Embodied Ways of Encountering, Evaluating, and Enacting Institutions. . Organization Studies. , 41, 415-435. . https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619835254

Taylor, S. S., (2017). Staging Organization. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63127-1

Taylor, S. S., (2012). Leadership Craft, Leadership Art. Palgrave Macmillan New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012784

Ladkin, D., Taylor, S.S., (2010). Enacting the ‘true self’: Towards a theory of embodied authentic leadership,. The Leadership Quarterly, 21, 64-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.10.005

Ladkin, D., Taylor, S.S., (2009). Understanding arts-based methods in managerial development. Academy of Mangement Learning & Education, 8, 55-69. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2009.37012179