“…Such expectations, which construct not only available but we argue, 'acceptable' managerial social-identities, are culturally associated with masculinity (Hay, 2014;Kerfoot & Knights, 1998;Simpson, 2007) and contrast with vulnerability, which is 'culturally coded feminine' (Butler & Gambetti, 2013:np) and associated with weakness. However, according to Deslandes (2018) what we are told by the theologians who wrote about management…is that it is first characterized by a dose of negativity, weakness, struggle and the difficulties inherent in the task… Although managerial strength often appears to be omnipotent, flawless, effective, even irresistible, the reality is, in fact, less cut and dried. Managers are capable, but they are also fallible and vulnerable.…”