1st Edition

Critical Leadership Leader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization

By Paul Evans, John Hassard, Paula Hyde Copyright 2013
232 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a "real" phenomenon. The book offers a critical account of the nature of leadership and management in modern organizations. Specifically it examines the forces... Read more

1. Introduction  Part I: Literature, Context, Methodology and Design  2. Leadership Studies  3. Organization in Context  4. Methodological Considerations  Part II: Field Research: Data Illustrations and Interpretations  5. The Challenge to Leadership and the Dynamic of Ambiguity  6. The Limitations to Leadership and the Dynamic of the Environment  7. The Negotiation of Leadership and the Dynamic of Resource Acquisition  8. The Balance within Leadership and the Dynamic of Symbiosis  9. The Negotiation of Leadership and the Dynamic of Politics  10. The Agency of Followers and the Dynamic of Game Playing  Part III: Discussion and Conclusions  11. Conclusions

Biography

Paul Evans is Lecture in Business Analysis at Manchester Business School, UK

John Hassard is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Manchester Business School, UK andis a Visiting  Fellow in Management Learning at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, UK. His main research interests lie in the areas of organization theory and change and he is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change (2011)

Paula Hyde is Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies at Manchester Business School, UK and is co-founder of the cross-faculty Healthcare Workforce Research Network at the Institute of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. Her main research interests lie in the areas of psychodynamic theory and organizational change and she is the co-editor of Culture and Climate in Health Care Organizations (2010, Palgrave Macmillan)

"Provides a comprehensive account of the literature on leadership studies" - Hartley, J., Fletcher, C. and Ungemach, C. Helen Dickinson University, Melbourne, Australia,, SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION