Sammanfattning
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.
Originalspråk | engelska |
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Sidor (från-till) | 40-57 |
Tidskrift | Leadership |
Volym | 14 |
Utgåva | 1 |
Tidigt onlinedatum | 2016 apr. 19 |
DOI | |
Status | Published - 2018 feb. |
Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)
- Företagsekonomi