Conceptualizing leadership processes: a study of senior managers in a financial services company

Article Abstract:

Established methodologies of leadership research have placed unnecessary constraints upon our capacity to examine creatively actual leadership practices and to generate fresh insights into their dynamics. A regeneration of leadership research depends upon the development of new frameworks of interpretation which yield new or deeper understanding of processes to which the term 'leadership' is usually attributed. To this end, the article presents a conceptual framework founded upon well established traditions of social enquiry which have been underutilized in leadership research. The value of this framework is demonstrated through the analysis of data taken from an intensive field study of leadership processes amongst senior managers. It is argued that this methodology for leadership research serves to answer calls for increasing the practical relevance of leadership research without making unacceptable sacrifices to its intellectual credibility. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Leadership

---

Studying managerial work: a critique and a proposal

Article Abstract:

Existing studies of managerial work fall short in several respects. They remove the work of the manager from the organizational context in which the work takes place. The organizational structure is either ignored or seen as an independent variable. An alternative approach to studying managerial work is proposed, in which the manager's work is both a means and a result of the contradictions inherent in the capitalist social system. These contradictions arise from the differences between socialized production and private appropriation.

Organizational behavior

---

Power, control, and resistance in "the factory that time forgot"

Article Abstract:

Corporate-driven initiatives increasingly attempt to adopt "new wave" techniques producing "lean manufacturing" working practices. Research has shown how workers variously resist these initiatives, appearing to cooperate with change while maintaining distance from them so as to retain a sense of self management.

United Kingdom, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Management Science, Management, Factory management

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Corporate branding and connoisseurship. Perceived corporate identity/ strategy dissonance: triggers and managerial responses
• Abstracts: The Role of Linear Recursive Estimators in Time Series Forecasting. A Diverting Structures Effects on a River Flow Time Series
• Abstracts: Properties of standardized time series weighted area variance estimators. Asymptotic properties of some confidence interval estimators for simulation output
• Abstracts: Determinants and consequences of task uncertainty: a laboratory and field investigation. Interdependence: an alternative conceptualization

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.