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- Bergman, Sandra, 1985-
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The Dynamics of Developing Leadership Communication in Organisations
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Leadership development is an area which is a top priority for organisations. While communication has historically been viewed as one of many leadership activities, it has recently been suggested to be more central to, even constitutive of, leadership. It has also been put forth that communication researchers may provide a means to develop new theoretical frameworks from which to develop leadership.The purpose of this thesis is to further the theoretical understanding of communicative leadership development, specifically in the form of training efforts. Furthermore, the goal is to provide a new understanding to practitioners who are working with the development of communicative leadership.This is a compilation thesis that consists of three papers. An initial literature review shows that the development of leadership communication receives interest from fields related to health, for instance, from nursing teams, businesses, the military and construction. On the other hand, the subject doesn’t receive as much attention from the field of communication studies. The results of the thesis are based on interviews with managers and communication professionals in two organisations. The findings show several benefits from having communication professionals take on a role as communication trainers, such as increased visibility of the communication department within the organisation and the opportunity to continue to support the leaders after the trainings. Additionally, a framework of adult learning is used to analyse the interviews, which highlights several points of adult learning that are relevant to the development of leadership communication.Based on the empirical data and the literature review, a model of communicative leadership development is suggested. This model is an amalgamation of what was learned from the three papers and summarises the understanding that was gained. Moreover, the model should provide practitioners with a basis for developing communicative leadership trainings as well as for developing the theory of communicative leadership.
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- Bäckström, Ingela, 1963-, et al.
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Communicative Leadership development conduction to impact on Quality culture and co-worker health
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Ingår i: 22nd QMOD conference on Quality and Service Sciences ICQSS 2019, 13-15 October. - Lund. - 9789176230862
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper explore effects of a communicative leadership development program in an organization and to present and discuss results from assessing Quality Culture and co-worker health in the same organization. Methodology/approach – In a company conducted a communicative leadership developing program, a questionnaire measuring QM values and co-worker health has been handed out to leaders and co-workers. Leaders conducted a communicative leadership developing program have been interviewed and observation studies have been conducted. Findings – The interviewed and observed leaders are working with communicative leadership in a structured way, The measured factors, assessing quality culture and co-worker health showed rather high mean values. Practical implications – The communicative leadership developing program seams to help leaders to communicate in a structured way.
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- Bäckström, Ingela, 1963-, et al.
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Health Related Quality Management values and Key principles of Communicative Leadership - are they the same?
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Ingår i: 16th QMOD conference on Quality and Service Sciences ICQSS,4-6 September 2013, Portoroz, Slovenia. - 9789612322694 ; , s. 164-177
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare health related values within Quality Management with Key Principles of Communicative Leadership in order to see if Communicative leaders also promote healthy co-workers.Methodology/approach – A literature review was conducted within the area of Communicative Leadership and within the values of health related Quality Management. The principles within Communicative leadership were compared with the underlying dimensions within the health related values ‘Leadership Commitment’ and Participation of everybody’.Findings – The analysis shows that the underlying dimensions within both of the health related Quality Management values ‘Participation of everybody’ and ‘Leadership commitment’ were related to some of the Key Principles of Communicative Leadership. Practical implications – The results can help Communicative Leaders to emphasize the Key Principles that also promote healthy co-workers. The results can also help leaders that already have healthy co-workers to increase leaders’ communication competence within organizations.
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- Bäckström, Ingela, 1963-, et al.
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Health Related Quality Management Values and Key Principles of Communicative Leadership - Are They the Same?
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Ingår i: Quality Innovation Prosperity. - KOSICE : Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia. - 1335-1745 .- 1338-984X. ; 18:1, s. 59-72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to compare health related values within Quality Management with Key Principles of Communicative Leadership in order to see if Communicative leaders also promote healthy co-workers. A literature review was conducted within the area of Communicative Leadership and within the values of health related Quality Management. The principles within Communicative leadership were compared with the underlying dimensions within the health related values ‘Leadership Commitment’ and Participation of everybody’. The analysis shows that the underlying dimensions within both of the health related Quality Management values ‘Participation of everybody’ and ‘Leadership commitment’ were related to some of the Key Principles of Communicative Leadership. The results can help Communicative Leaders to emphasize the Key Principles that also promote healthy co-workers. The results can also help leaders that already have healthy co-workers to increase leaders’ communication competence within organizations.
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- Bäckström, Ingela, et al.
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How Communicative Leadership influences co-workers’ health : A Quality Management perspective
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Ingår i: International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences. - 1756-669X .- 1756-6703. ; 8:2, s. 143-158
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe leaders’ views on how Communicative Leadership influences co-worker health by comparing their opinions with the health-related values within Quality Management.Design/methodology/approach - A multinational manufacturing organization that has been working with Communicative Leadership for several years was investigated. 21 managers trained in Communicative Leadership were interviewed and asked about their views on how their communication influences both the well-being of their co-workers and the working environment. Various communication behaviors and communication methodologies emerged from the interviews and were then analyzed versus the health-related Quality Management dimensions.Findings - The result shows concrete communication behavior and methodologies that influence co-worker well-being and the working environment positively and negatively. Another result is a description of the prerequisites for managers to be able to communicate in a way that influences co-worker well-being and the working environment. The analysis of the communication behaviors and communication methodologies versus the health-related Quality Management values shows that several of the health-related Quality Management dimensions were present.Research limitations/implications – A limitation of this research is that it is just managers’ view that has been investigated and analyzed.Practical implications – Managers acting and behaving in accordance with the communicative behaviors and methodologies described in the results can influence co-worker health and the working environment in a positive way. The level of awareness of the prerequisites could help managers to influence co-worker well-being and create a good working environment.Originality/value – The connection between Communicative Leadership and health-related Quality Management values is rarely made. This research can contribute to greater understanding in both areas. Keywords Health-related Quality Management, co-worker health, Communicative Leadership, well-being, working environment.Paper type Research paper.
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- Grandien, Christina, et al.
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Institutionalization of communication management in organizations – A theoretical framework
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Ingår i: Corporate Communications. An International Journal. - : Emerald. - 1356-3289 .- 1758-6046. ; 17:2, s. 209-227
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – Development and expansion of the communication management function in organizations has lately been discussed in relation to the concept of institutionalization. Empirical evidence has illustrated that the role of communication executives and communication managers varies between organizations, and could also be subjected to change within an organization. In this paper, institutionalization of communication management is conceptualized as a process. A theoretical framework is developed, which integrates important factors that influence and regulate this process.Design/Methodology – A literature review resulted in a number of factors potentially influencing the institutionalization process. These factors were attributed to three main theoretical areas and four different levels of analysis, using institutional theory as a guiding framework. The theoretical areas and analysis levels, were proposed to be mutually interdependent, and were compiled in a theoretical framework, illustrated in a model.Findings – The theoretical framework includes three main areas: organizational structure, social capital, and perceptions of the profession; and four levels of analysis: the societal, the organizational field, the organizational and the individual levels. Originality/Value – This paper contributes to the study of institutionalization of communication management in organizations by providing a theoretical framework, which can be used to further investigate the development of the communication function and the role of communication executives and communication managers in organizations. By conceptualizing institutionalization of communication management as a process – and exploring and defining important elements that influence and regulate this process, an important theoretical contribution to the field is made.
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- Grandien, Christina, 1977-, et al.
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Organizing and disorganizing strategic communication : Discursive institutional change in dynamics in two communication departments
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Ingår i: International Journal of Strategic Communication. - 1553-118X .- 1553-1198. ; 10:4, s. 332-351
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the institutionalization of strategic communication as a dynamic interplay between macro- and mesolevel discourses. The change processes in the two cases of this study involved both a reorientation of the purpose of the communication function and a physical relocation of the professionals to a centralized department. In both organizations, the transformation toward a strategic management function failed and the communication professionals are now working in ways similar to those before the change was initiated. The analysis illustrates that the institutionalization of strategic communication is effected by organizational-level processes and mechanisms that are not always controlled by communication professionals. The institutionalization of strategic communication is bound by organizational discourses as well as by the actions of communication practitioners and general managers. The study also shows that macro- and mesolevel discourses influence the ways in which change initiatives are translated and strategic communication effected on an organizational level. Hence, institutionalization processes of strategic communication will comply with management trends but can change direction when these trends are challenged. Our results expose that new ideas or practices of strategic communication are translated discursively within organizations in processes of recontextualization, reinterpretation, and reframing. Consequently, new ideas and practices of strategic communication are adjusted to organizational discourses and organizational settings. The translation of a new idea or practice will therefore change the initial meaning of that same idea or practice. For that reason, institutionalization of strategic communication should not be reduced to a unidirectional process but conceptualized as a dynamic interplay between discourses on different levels that moves institutionalization in multiple directions.
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- Grandien, Christina, 1977-
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Strategic Communication Found in Translation : Practices, Practitioners and Perceptions
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation seeks to explore how institutional, organizational and individual factors influence the development of strategic communication. The dissertationillustrates how new institutional theory can be applied to address the development of strategic communication as a process that is produced on different interrelated institutional levels. It also shows that multiple levels need to be addressed in order to develop a more comprehensive understanding of strategic communication. Further, it describes how the development of strategic communication is restricted and enabled by societal and organizational discourse in processes that are not always controlled by communication professionals. The dissertation also explores howpopular ideas or successful recipes for strategic communication are spread between organizations in the same field, but are adjusted or translated in order to fit organizational preconditions. The results also highlighthow professionalism is understood differently by communication practitioners depending on the organizational sector they work in and how the institutional embeddedness of communication practitioners influences the ways in which practitioners commit to their occupation.Moreover, it suggests that the inhabited and perceived moral taint that is associated with communication practitioners shapes the professional discourse and hampers the development of a shared occupational identity. Finally, it is suggestedthat knowledge about the development of strategic communication can be found in the translations and local adaptions of new ideas and practices. Insights about the institutionalization of strategic communication might not only be found in realized structures and routines, but in micro changes that happen as the result of local circumstances.
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