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- Almeida, Teresa, et al.
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Can you be a follower even when you do not follow the leader? : Yes, you can
- 2021
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 17:3, s. 336-364
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the ongoing debate in the area of critical leadership studies, the nature of leader–follower relationships is a thorny issue. The nature of followership has been questioned, especially whether followers can display resistance behaviours while maintaining their follower position. Addressing this issue requires a dialectical approach in which followers and leaders alike are primary elements in leadership co-production. Followers who face destructive leaders are of special interest when leadership is studied as a co-creational process. This context favours the emergence of a full range of behavioural profiles in which passives and colluders will illustrate the destructive leadership co-production process, and those who resist demonstrate that followers may not follow the leader and still keep a followership purpose. A two-step data analysis procedure was conducted based on the behaviour descriptions of 123 followers having a destructive leader. A qualitative analysis (i.e. content analysis) showed a set of behaviours and their antecedents that suggest three main groups of followers: resisters, obedient and mixed behaviour. Treating these data quantitatively (i.e. latent class analysis), six followers’ profiles emerged: active resistance, passive resistance, passive obedience, conflict avoidance, support and mixed. Our findings provide evidence that followers who resist may do it for the sake of the organisation. We discuss our findings in light of followership theory, whereby joining role-based and constructionist approaches allows us to argue that followers may still be followers even when they do not invariably follow their leader.
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- Alvehus, Johan, et al.
(författare)
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Blackboxing leadership: Methodological practices leading to manager-centrism
- 2023
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 19:1, s. 85-97
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The scholarly literature on leadership has long been characterized by leader-centrism, in the sense of a focus on individual leaders, their characteristics and actions. This tendency has been strongly criticized, not least by scholars with a critical perspective. However, we still see a strong emphasis on leaders and managers in empirical studies of leadership. In this article, we suggest that this tendency is at least in part a consequence of common methodological blackboxing practices within leadership studies. We identify two such blackboxing practices: delegation, where identification of the core phenomenon is left to informants, and proxying, when more easily defined phenomena are taken to stand for leadership. We suggest that a consequence of such practices is an unintended focus on managers, and attempts to avoid leader-centrism that rely on these blackboxing practices therefore paradoxically might result in manager-centrism.
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- Alvehus, Johan
(författare)
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Emergent, distributed, and orchestrated : Understanding leadership through frame analysis
- 2019
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 15:5, s. 535-554
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Leadership scholars are beginning to understand leadership as a distributed phenomenon, produced in interaction and emerging in social situations. Although this perspective has contributed to understanding leadership processes in more detail, it has also been noted that its proponents have largely neglected power and asymmetrical hierarchical relations. In this paper, I address these issues by drawing on Erving Goffman’s notion of frame analysis. Through detailed analysis of the interactions in a core-values session, I show how leadership processes that appear to be distributed and emergent from the participants’ framework appear orchestrated when understood from the manager’s framework. The analysis reveals how power asymmetries operate in the framing of the situation, and how the experience of leadership differs among participants. Talk, text, tools, and movements in time and space all contribute to establish frameworks, and differences in access to these modalities show power asymmetries. The paper highlights how the experience of leadership is framed and how power asymmetries constitute this framing. It thereby contributes to multimodal, constructivist theories of distributed leadership by showing how leadership is simultaneously emergent, distributed, and orchestrated.
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
(författare)
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The bumpy road to exercising leadership : Fragmentations in meaning and practice
- 2018
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 14:1, s. 40-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present study focuses on a manager’s understanding of leadership and how this guides – or does not guide practice. The paper reports an empirical in-depth study of a middle manager in an international manufacturing company. We link our discussion to both – the mainstream leadership studies, which assume that managers have a solid type of leadership behavior, and authors with a meaning-oriented, linguistic approach to leadership, in which language, self-awareness, and behavior are linked. The present study suggests that leadership attempts can vary, be divisive, and that a manager’s advocacy efforts are driven by a multitude of different, partly opposing, forces, meaning a decoupling of ideas and behavior in leadership practice. The paper raises the question of whether managers’ meanings of leadership correspond with what they do in practice.
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| 5. |
- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
(författare)
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The gaslighting of authentic leadership 2.0
- 2022
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 18:6, s. 814-831
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a response to Bill Gardner and Kelly McCauley’s ‘gaslighting’ critique of our text on the perils of authentic leadership. Against gaslighting 1.0 (evilly trying to convince people to doubt their perceptions), we propose gaslighting 2.0 (enlightenment). We argue that organizations face severe problems and challenges that cannot be solved by motivating managers to engage in introspection and being overly preoccupied by their own authenticity. A search for one’s true self is a personal journey of inner growth and heightened self-awareness that individuals, leaders and non-leaders may engage in and find highly beneficial, but outside any notion of exercising influence or power on others to reach career objectives or corporate goals. The broad use of simple recipes with claims of overwhelming positive effects is problematic. Leadership research is often based on highly problematic measures, making most efforts to capture the core phenomenon unreliable. That many people are attracted by simplistic, positive-sounding and ego-enhancing formulas is not the same as evidence for theoretical value and relevance of a truth claim. Taking aspiration as a critical element would call for the development and study of Aspirational Authentic Leadership Theory, which would be something quite different from the static study of how managers score in terms of being true to their values, a core self, and so on. In-depth process studies of managers trying to be authentic navigating dilemmas at work could be an alternative to focus further research on.
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| 6. |
- Barry, Daved, et al.
(författare)
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The art of leadership and its fine art shadow
- 2010
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 6:3, s. 331-349
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we attempt to bring art and craft together in the enterprise of leadership, first by reframing the art of leadership in light of fine art thinking, and then joining it to notions of craft. With this, we develop an approach to leadership where artistry is closely dependent on, yet distinct from, craft. Finally, we discuss the ramifications of this perspective for leadership practice and research.
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| 7. |
- Blom, Martin, et al.
(författare)
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The (In)voluntary follower
- 2020
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : Sage Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 16:2, s. 163-179
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An important assumption when it comes to leader-follower relationships is that compliance and subordination are basically voluntary. In this article, we problematize and develop this assumption and discuss different circumstances in which voluntariness in terms of followership may be compromised. Based on this discussion, we also suggest a tentative model of follower voluntariness, indicating dimensions in which voluntariness can be infringed upon and followership corroded and when it might be more productive to depict an asymmetrical relationship as something else than followership.
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- Crevani, Lucia
(författare)
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Is there leadership in a fluid world? : Exploring the ongoing production of direction in organizing
- 2018
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 4:1, s. 83-109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the idea of leadership being a process is clearly stated in leadership definitions, most researchers focus on individuals rather than observing and studying processes. This contradiction has been highlighted by a number of scholars turning to leadership processes and practices, thereby drawing attention to the interactional and social aspects of the phenomenon. Such contributions mostly take process perspectives in which entities still play an important role. In this article, I therefore aim at contributing to leadership studies based on a process ontology by exploring one central aspect of leadership work, the production of direction, processually. I do so by building on geographer Massey’s conception of space, thus adding a spatial dimension that enables me to conceptualize direction as the development of an evolving relational configuration. In order to empirically explore such a conceptualization, two constructs are proposed: the construction of positions and the construction of issues. The reading of leadership work thus produced leads me to suggest ‘clearing for action’ as a means of conveying the spatio-temporal and constructive (reality constructing) character of leadership work.
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| 10. |
- Döös, Marianne, 1949-, et al.
(författare)
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Fifty-five years of managerial shared leadership research : A review of an empirical field
- 2021
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 17:6, s. 715-746
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Managerial shared leadership is a practice that goes beyond traditional ways of organising leadership functions. It is an organisational phenomenon where a few individuals share responsibility for the tasks of a managerial position. This paper reviews 67 empirical papers published in scientific journals. The review covers 55 years (1965 – 2019). The aim is to contribute knowledge about managerial shared leadership as a research field and offer some relevant theoretical concepts. No review to date has specifically focused on managerial shared leadership and this paper intends to close this knowledge gap. The paper details the start of managerial shared leadership as a research field, presents a bibliometric analysis and the methodological approaches used, and describes the structural characteristics of managerial shared leadership. The paper includes a thematic content analysis of its necessary and enabling antecedents and outcomes. Historically, the imprecise use of concepts has hampered managerial shared leadership’s development into a cohesive research field, so this paper develops and uses theoretical concepts to form a theoretical construct for the entire field. This construct is briefly discussed in relation to general shared leadership theory and critical leadership studies. In practice, managerial shared leadership may provide leadership solutions where there is an imbalance between demands and resources while managing complex situations.
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| 11. |
- Einola, Katja, et al.
(författare)
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The perils of authentic leadership theory
- 2021
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 17:4, s. 483-490
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this commentary, we discuss perils of authentic leadership theory (ALT) in a modest effort to help weed out one theory that has gone amiss to pave the way for new ideas. We make an argument for why ALT is not only wrong in a harmless manner, but it may be outright perilous to leadership scholars, scholarship and those who believe in it. It may undermine academic work, delegitimize university institutions, make false promises to organizations, and cause identity trouble through encouraging managers and others overeager to live up to the proposed formula. We argue that leadership and authenticity should be kept separate as interests and themes of study.
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| 12. |
- Fabisch, Anna, et al.
(författare)
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Transformations towards an integrated leadership development system : A longitudinal study in a high-performing public organization
- 2024
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : Sage Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Leadership development (LD) plays a significant role in achieving high-quality performance and business results, but there is little research on how leadership development itself evolves as the organization develops. This study explores how a leadership development system evolved over 30 years, during a time when the organization became increasingly high performing. Through reflexive thematic analysis of organizational documents and interviews with top managers and practitioners, the study provides a rich longitudinal description of the evolvement. The results revealed three pervasive changes of the leadership development system: 1) from a system for business-specific learning to one for system-wide learning; 2) from a system for personal development to one for customer-oriented quality development; and 3) from a leadership development system consisting of leadership development programs to one that is integrated into regular meetings and uses simple rules. These changes supported the gradual transformation of the leadership development from being independent to becoming integrated in the wider system, supporting the business system. The findings offer a unique insight into how an organization transitioned from individual leader development towards promoting collective aspects of leadership development. The study provides two main theoretical contributions that support the perspective of viewing leadership development as integrated within organizational development. Firstly, we present a more multifaceted way of understanding leadership development, wherein managers and employees, customer outcomes, and business advancement are seen as mutually developing. Secondly, we introduce two new critical points that complement previous descriptions of an advanced leadership development system: It is system wide (not only business specific) and customer oriented (not only leader/participant oriented).
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- Foroughi, Hamid, et al.
(författare)
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Leadership in a post-truth era : A new narrative disorder?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 15:2, s. 135-151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay, and the speical issue it introduces, seeks to explore leadership in a post-truth age, focusing in particular on the types of narratives and counter-narratives that characterize it and at times dominate it. We first examine the factors that are often held responsible for the rise of post-truth in politics, including the rise of relativist and postmodernist ideas, dishonest leaders and bullshit artists, the digital revolution and social media, the 2008 economic crisis and collapse of public trust. We develop the idea that different historical periods are characterized by specific narrative ecologies, which, by analogy to natural ecologies, can be viewed as spaces where different types of narrative and counter-narrative emerge, interact, compete, adapt, develop and die. We single out some of the dominant narrative types that characterize post-truth narrative ecologies and highlight the ability of language to ‘do things with words’ that support both the production of ‘fake news’ and a type of narcissistic leadership that thrive in these narrative ecologies. We then examine more widely leadership in post-truth politics focusing on the resurgence of populist and demagogical types along with the narratives that have made these types highly effective in our times. These include nostalgic narratives idealizing a fictional past and conspiracy theories aimed at arousing fears about a dangerous future.
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| 14. |
- Gabriel, Yiannis
(författare)
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Kafka and the COVID-19 epidemic : Why the Sirens’ silence is more deadly than their song
- 2020
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 16:3, s. 320-330
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Seeking to examine the implications of social distancing, isolation and the silencing of public spaces brought about by the COVID-19 epidemic, I offer an interpretation of Kafka’s short story ‘The Silence of the Sirens’ contrasting it to the Homeric original. In Homer’s story, Odysseus resists the temptation of the Sirens’ deadly song by having himself tied to the mast of his ship, while his oarsmen, ears blocked with beeswax, sail quickly by. By contrast, in Kafka’s telling of the story, the Sirens fall silent. A solitary Odysseus, indifferent to them, sails by peacefully, his ears blocked, his ‘great eyes’ staring in the distance. Homer’s story has long been seen as a warning against the seductions of Siren voices like those of opportunist demagogues. Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus himself offers a complex archetype of heroic leadership, navigating adroitly and prudently the dangers of stormy seas. Kafka’s character, by contrast, proposes a different archetype, one akin to the Stoics’ homo viator, the individual who sails through life’s adversities by accepting them and turning them into a source of inner strength and wisdom. In this way, Kafka offers two things: first, an insightful explanation of why silence and isolation can be deadly when they leaving us alone with our darkest fears and fantasies, and second, an archetype of hope that is attuned to our times on how to cope with pain and anxiety.
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| 15. |
- Gabriel, Yiannis
(författare)
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Leadership in opera : Romance, betrayal, strife and sacrifice
- 2017
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 13:1, s. 5-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What, if anything, does opera tell us about leadership, leaders and followers, that social research or indeed other art forms do not tell us? This is the question I address here. I argue that opera is a highly political genre, able to depict political events involving leaders and followers in sharply illuminating ways. In particular, through the device of the chorus it is able to represent the political actions and sentiments of large multitudes of people in their complexity and ambiguity. It is also capable of portraying many of the contradictions of leadership in a critical light. In particular, I argue that opera offers powerful insights into the psychology of leaders confronted by crisis and strife. It highlights the sacrifices they make, the distance and isolation that frequently afflicts them, the different ways in which they wield power and handle conflicts and the tensions between their private and public lives. In showing them meting out favours and punishments, opera warns of rulers’ perennial temptation to abuse their power and highlights some of the dark sides of leadership.
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| 16. |
- Hazy, James K., et al.
(författare)
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Towards operationalizing complexity leadership : How generative, administrative and community-building leadership practices enact organizational outcomes
- 2015
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 11:1, s. 79-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over five years ago, The Leadership Quarterly published a special issue on complexity to advance a new way of thinking about leadership. In shifting attention away from the individual to the organizing process itself, complexity added an important focus on process and context to leadership and management research. Yet, the complexity approach creates challenges for researchers who must combine or replace individual level constructs—like those built through surveys or factor analysis—with richer theories that investigate networked meso dynamics, multilevel phenomena, emergent processes, and organizational outcomes. To address this challenge, the present analysis draws on theoretical and empirical work over the last several years to identify five specific areas where complexity inspired research has led to new insights about the mechanisms that enable the organization to perform and adapt. It suggests propositions that describe how leadership and management, defined holistically, might activate complexity mechanisms to perform five essential organizing functions.
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| 17. |
- Holmberg, Ingalill, et al.
(författare)
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Leadership Voices : The Ideology of 'The New Economy'
- 2005
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Ingår i: Leadership (London, England). - : Sage. - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 1:3, s. 353-374
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores leadership voices in the so-called new economy. For approximately half a decade, influential business leaders, authors of popular management texts, politicians, journalists and scholars preached the dawning of a new economic order and a corresponding new leadership practice. The article examines influential leadership voices and the ideology claims being expressed in Sweden during a particular time period. By bracketing the epochal claims in time and space, the dominating leadership ideology is examined. The results show a clear influence of market rationalism, but with a twist of community, emotions and reciprocal individualization.
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| 18. |
- Inal, Tuba, 1976-
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Gender and political leadership : Turkish experience
- 2017
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 13:5, s. 615-638
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Women’s political leadership has been ignored both in actual political scene of world’s democracies and by the studies of political leadership. The common perception in both areas has long been that gender difference makes women unfit leaders. More recent studies of gender and leadership as well as various women politicians, on the other hand, emphasized women’s fitness for leadership due to their gendered characteristics. This paper argues that using gender as a determining factor for good or bad political leadership endangers future leadership opportunities for women. An exploration of the experience of Turkey in the 1990s with a woman political leader, Tansu Çiller, and her leadership style in relation to her gender, demonstrates that while gender stereotypes make women’s political leadership to be perceived as ineffective, any argument that is made in its favor in gendered terms faces the risk of being refuted by actual experience hence delegitimizing women’s leadership altogether. Using Crosby and Bryson’s leadership model as an analytical framework to dissect Çiller’s political and ethical leadership and her use of gender in the Turkish context, we can see that gender itself does not make a leader more democratic or ethical and arguing so works against potential women leaders.
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- Johansson, Janet, et al.
(författare)
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Exploring caring leadership through a feminist ethic of care : The case of a sporty CEO
- 2021
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : Sage Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 17:3, s. 318-335
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This work critiques the normative construction of ethical leadership and contributes to understanding the ethics of care in leadership from a lifestyle and embodied perspective. Drawing on feminist notions of ethics of care, we question the ethicality of the practices of a sporty and health-oriented leader who claims to transform his attempts at self-care into care for others through role-modelling lifestyle behaviours. We explore inherent moral dilemmas in connecting a seemingly creative self-care project with well-intentioned practices of caring for others. We highlight the need to question persistent masculine rationalisations in ethical leadership, and to engage in and encourage, organisational and relational interactions that take account of specific employee needs. We argue that the leaders claiming to care for others by insisting on particular lifestyle behaviours and role-modelling aesthetic bodily ideals introduce new managerial norms in the organisation. The Instrumental intentions come to hamper an ethical care for the well-being of employees, whilst demonstrating the power of the leader to influence employees both inside and outside the organisation.
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- Kjellström, Sofia, 1970-, et al.
(författare)
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Six ways of understanding leadership development : An exploration of increasing complexity
- 2020
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : Sage Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 16:4, s. 434-460
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Leadership development is a multifaceted phenomenon with a multitude of definitions and meanings requiring closer exploration. The aim of this study was to identify and investigate qualitatively different ways of understanding leadership development and categorize them from a complexity perspective. We conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with professionals and managers. Analysis using a phenomenographic approach revealed six categories and different ways of understanding leadership development: (1) one's own development, (2) fulfilling a leadership role, (3) personal development, (4) leader and organizational development, (5) collective leadership development, and (6) human development. The categories were arranged hierarchically according to increasing complexity. Our contribution recognizes more nuanced interpretations than previously identified and highlights underlying structures of complexity. The results help to empirically ground and elaborate current theories and distinctions within the field of leadership development research where similar patterns can be observed. They may assist researchers in making both their own and other's assumptions on leadership development explicit, as well as informing the practice of tailoring leadership development activities to better match individuals and organizational contexts.
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- Larsson, Magnus, et al.
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‘It's the organization that is wrong’ : Exploring disengagement from organisations through leadership development
- 2020
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 16:2, s. 141-162
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This research explores the relationship between participation in leadership development programmes and disengagement from the employing organization. Based on repeated interviews with 10 managers participating in an open leadership development programme, our analysis shows that half of the participants reflected a sense of distancing themselves from how their organizations practiced leadership, and for some, an emotional disengagement with their home organization which we see as analogous to changes in social identity. We problematize the role of management and leadership development programmes with regard to the relationship between organizations and employees. A series of paradoxes are reflected in our critique of this relationship. The most prominent in terms of implications is that a successful management and leadership development programme – recognized by employees and employers – can generate dissatisfaction with the home organization as a consequence of the purpose of the programme: to increase confidence and enhanced agency. This paradox has significant implication to the leadership development industry and we explore these implications.
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| 22. |
- Larsson, Magnus, et al.
(författare)
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Leadership as Work-embedded Influence : A Micro-discursive Analysis of an Everyday Interaction in a Bank
- 2010
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 6:2, s. 159-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article examines leader ship as an aspect of everyday work inter actions. Drawing on the findings of an ethnographically inspired study of superior-subordinate relations in a bank, it argues that leader ship can be understood as embedded in everyday work-activities, rather than seen as distinct from these. Relying on the framework of discursive psychology, a micro-level analysis of an informal interaction is presented, showing how discursive strategies in the leader-follower exchange make relevant organizational visions and values rooted in the wider cultural context, and how the follower identity and action alternatives are negotiated in this process. These findings are discussed in the light of current leader ship research, and it is suggested that leader ship can be understood as a practical accomplishment. Influence may thus be seen as dependent on or embedded in everyday work, a contention which constitutes a challenge to the widespread distinction between management and leader ship.
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- Muhr, Sara L., et al.
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"None so queer as folk": Gendered expectations and transgressive bodies in leadership
- 2013
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 9:3, s. 416-435
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the relationship between the body and leadership through a case study of a transgender leader. The study shows that the leader's body, presumed gender, and gendered appearance are salient markers that employees use to make sense of leaders and leadership, and that this gendered nature of leadership shows the deep roots of gender dichotomies and the heterosexual matrix that permeate our understanding of leadership. These two findings lead us to emphasize the need to queer leadership. All leaders experience gendered restrictions, to some extent, via the social norms and expectations of the way leadership should be performed. The construction of leadership through a transgender body reminds us to stay open to the exploration of performativity, particularly the relationships between bodies, gender, sexuality, and leadership and how any body can benefit from queering leadership.
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| 24. |
- Nilsson, Tomas, PhD, 1966-, et al.
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The pedagogical potential of identity work in leadership education : Controversies, confessions, and conclusions
- 2024
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : Sage Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 20:1, s. 33-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Decades of interest in responsible leadership has drawn critical attention to how future leaders are formed by academic leadership education. It has forced teachers to increasingly contemplate what leadership ideas and pedagogical practices they bring to the classroom, and who they are in the light of the ideas and practices they adhere to. In this ‘Leading Questions’ we take an interest in how leadership educators’ identities are formed and exploited in everyday teaching. The questions and comments we present are part of an ongoing conversation on identity work triggered by the controversies we experienced when co-teaching a course titled Rethinking Leadership at a renowned international business school. Where most discussions of identity work in a business school context only highlight the distressing and unfavourable aspects of identity work, we take a different approach. We confess how we struggle with our own identities as leadership educators. We then argue this identity work comes with pedagogical potential, yet to be accounted for, especially relevant to future education of critical and responsible leaders. Finally, we confess that even if our years of conversation on our different teacher identities did not result in a distinct pedagogical model, it dramatically changed and charged our ability to intentionally make space for controversial identity work in the leadership classroom.
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- Nyberg, Daniel, et al.
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Paradoxes of authentic leadership: Leader identity struggles
- 2014
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 10:4, s. 437-455
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using in-depth interview material, this article explores the socially constructed and locally mediated nature of authentic leadership. The findings illustrate an irony of authentic leadership: while leaders claim that it is their true and natural selves that make them good leaders; simultaneously, they must restrain their claimed authenticity in order to be perceived as good leaders. This generates tensions that undermine the construction of a more stable and coherent leader identity. The study finds that in order to resolve these tensions, the managers develop metaphorical selves-Mother Teresa, messiah and coach-as a way of trying to accommodate conflicting identity claims while remaining true to the idea of themselves as authentic leaders exercising good leadership. These findings contribute to a constructed, situational and contested notion of leadership by showing how authenticity is an existential project of 'essentialising' fragmented and conflicting selves.
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- Spoelstra, Sverre, et al.
(författare)
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Never let an academic crisis go to waste : Leadership Studies in the wake of journal retractions
- 2016
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 12:4, s. 383-397
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2014, leadership studies saw the retraction of a number of journal articles written by prominent researchers who are closely associated with popular concepts such as transformational leadership, authentic leadership, ethical leadership and spiritual leadership. In response, The Leadership Quarterly published a lengthy editorial that presented these retractions as a sign of health in a mature scientific field. For the editors of The Leadership Quarterly, there is no crisis in leadership studies. In this paper, we suggest that the editorial is a missed opportunity to reflect on positivist leadership studies. In our view, leadership ought to be in crisis because this would stimulate the community to question its guiding assumptions and reconsider its methods and objectives. We therefore hope to open up a critical discussion about the means and ends of mainstream leadership studies - not least of all its scientific pretensions.
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| 27. |
- Spoelstra, Sverre
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The paradigm of the charismatic leader
- 2019
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 15:6, s. 744-749
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This invited contribution is a reflection on my motivation for writing the book Leadership and Organization: A Philosophical Introduction (Spoelstra, 2018). The premise of the book is that popular leadership adjectives, e.g. ‘transformational’, ‘authentic’ and ‘servant’, are much more interesting than the corresponding leadership constructs suggest. The book claims that these popular leadership concepts are still shaped by the figure of the charismatic leader, even though the concept of charisma in leadership studies has lost much of its appeal. In this paper,I further suggest that popular leadership concepts, including the ones mentioned, create a followership that deserves to be critically interrogated.
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- Spoelstra, Sverre
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The truths and falsehoods of post-truth leaders
- 2020
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 16:6, s. 757-764
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last three years, the idea of a ‘post-truth society’ has become a common talking point. Politicians from around the world, from Europe to South America to the United States, have been labelled as ‘post-truth leaders’, with Donald Trump being portrayed as the standard bearer for this new kind of political discourse. This article suggests that post-truth leadership is nothing new. Ever since Max Weber developed his notion of charismatic leadership in the early 20th century, Western societies have been infatuated with the idea that leaders ought not concern themselves too much with factual reality. In a sense, leadership has been post-truth all along.
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- Sveningsson, Stefan, et al.
(författare)
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Fantasies of leadership: Identity Work
- 2006
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications. - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 2:2, s. 203-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores middle managerial talk and practice connected to expectations of leadership in a planned corporate cultural change programme. Here we explore how a middle manager positions him or herself in relation to contemporary discourse on leadership. We discuss how managerial claims of leadership in practice seem inconsistent with the actual practice. Based on these findings we suggest that leadership ideas could be seen as a kind of fantasy related to identity work, rather than actual practice. We investigate this fantasy in terms of its various sources and relate the fantasy construction to management education and to the planned cultural change in particular.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-
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More passion than the job requires? : Monstrously transgressive leadership in the promotion of health at work
- 2013
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : Sage Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 9:3 (SI), s. 396-415
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite Weber’s early emphasis on passionate emotions in charismatic leadership and a recent but broader interest in the embodied and emotional aspects of leadership, we still know relatively little about how passions are embodied in leadership. We also know little about how such passions may transgress formally and socially defined limits of leadership in organizations. Through a case of workplace health promotion this paper therefore investigates how people in organizational leadership roles passionately – and corporeally – transgress the limits of these roles whilst pursuing organizational change. Going beyond extant research, the paper argues that the leaders’ pursuit of health was driven by their own embodied passions as well as by organizational rationales, but that their passions were expressed in largely non-charismatic ways that de-motivated rather than motivated employees.
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- Tyrstrup, Mats, et al.
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Well then - What now? : An everyday approach to managerial leadership
- 2010
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1742-7169 .- 1742-7150. ; 6:4, s. 353-372
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines leadership in practice through an investigation of how 62 managers (including project leaders), competing in a cutting-edge environment, perceive and describe the characteristics of everyday leadership. Based on the common notion of fragmentation in managerial work, as well as the unfortunate lack of understanding of how managerial work relates to the overall work processes of the organization, the article addresses the integrated job of managing (e.g., see Barley and Kunda, 1992; Hales, 1986, 1999; Mintzberg, 1994). In this study, everyday leadership is uncovered as a sense-making process consisting of three sets of activities — interpretations, constant adjustments and formulations of temporary solutions. Another striking feature of everyday leadership is that, to a considerable extent, it is event-driven. We therefore suggest that everyday leadership, as an event-driven activity rather than an intention-driven activity, should focus on skills such as improvisation and the ability to tune in.
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- Edwards, Gareth, et al.
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Editorial: What makes a good article for leadership? Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 1
- 2024
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Ingår i: Leadership. - 1742-7150. ; 20:1, s. 3-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This issue of Leadership marks our first full year as Co-Editors-in-Chief. As we highlighted in our introductory editorial (Edwards and Schedlitzki, 2023) we see our role as striving to develop the community of the journal in its endeavour to be a key, critical and contemporary voice for leadership studies. To continue this journey, and to help contributors frame and develop their work for submission to the journal, we have invited some of our Associate Editors to share their thoughts on the following questions:1. What do you look for in a strong article, suitable for submission to Leadership?2. What do you see as a critical contribution to leadership studies?3. Can you highlight and/or explore some past articles published in Leadership that exemplify your views?In this editorial we will hear from three of our associate editors - Brigid Carroll, Magnus Larsson and Owain Smolović Jones. As you will see below, they push us towards key thinking around criticality as an edge, encouragement to engage with the complexity of leadership as a phenomenon and promoting ideas around critical companionship. We hope that you enjoy the read!
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