Digitization has changed a lot in the area of leadership and relationships. The aim of the study is thus to examine how digitalization has changed the leadership and the relationship with the employees of municipal managers. Municipal managers constitute a specific group andt herefore became an interesting phenomenon. In the study, 18 municipal managers were interviewed, through semi-structured digital interviews. The sample for the study is municipal managers who are active in peripheral municipalities to Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. The results show that digitization has affected leadership in different ways. If there are differences in the leader-member exchange, it is difficult to decipher, however, it has been possible to discern that there are differences in how the exchange takes place. The results show that digital meetings have given a feeling of one-way communication, the dialogue disappears, which is also linked to the leader-member exchange. The digital changeover has had different impressions on the respondents, but the majority have testified that the changeover worked surprisingly well. The leadership style has become more trust-based and many of the respondent’s book significantly more reconciliation meetings with their employees. The results of the interviews show that there are various challenges in the leadership of the respondents, much depending on personality traits. If there has been a shift in focus between the leader and the employee, the result has shown that it is shared. In the leadermember exchange perspective, communication and accessibility have been two centralconcepts.

Syftet med denna undersökning var att undersöka förekomsten av tillitsbaseratledarskap och i vilken grad tillitsreformen påverkat det tillitsbaserade ledarskapetsförekomst i de högsta kommunala ledningsgrupperna. Det teoretiska antagandet harvarit att ett engagerat ledarskap har stor betydelse för att förbättringsarbeten skalyckas och att den högsta ledningens egna beteende utgör en viktig förebild som kanskapa tillit men även misstro hos de som förväntas utföra det praktiska arbetet.Undersökningen genomfördes genom en webbaserad enkät som riktades tillkommunchefer och kommunfullmäktiges ordföranden i samtliga sverigeskommuner. Frågan som ställdes var hur de kommunala ledarna bedömer sitt egetoch statens tillämpande av tillitsbaserad styrning och ledning och hur tillitsreformenupplevs ha påverkat detta tillämpande. Undersökningens svarsfrekvens har intevarit tillräcklig för att säkerställa statistisk generaliserbarhet för landet som helhet,de resultat som uppnåtts antyder dock att de kommunala ledarna skattar varandrastillämpning av tillitsbaserad styrning och ledning högre än vad de gör statens. Denförändring i ledarskapet som skett till följd av tillitsreformen har framförallt sketthos de kommunala chefstjänstemännen. Likaväl tycks det vara de kommunalachefstjänstemännen som överlag är mest kritiska till statens tillämpning av etttillitsbaserat ledarskap. Statens tillitsbaserade ledarskap är också det som anses haförändrats minst av tillitsreformen. Inom kommunerna tillämpar de förtroendevaldaledarna framförallt principen medborgarfokus medan tjänstemännen framförallttillämpar ledningsprinciperna stöd och öppenhet. Ledningsprinciperna kunskap,medborgarfokus och öppenhet är de som staten till störst del tillämpar. Principentillit framstår som den minst tillämpade principen såväl mellan förtroendevalda ochtjänstemän inom kommunernas ledningsgrupper som i statens styrning och ledninggentemot kommunerna men är samtidigt den princip vars tillämpning utvecklatsmest positivt inom de kommunala ledningsgrupperna. Analysen har inte kunnatstyrka att något uppenbart samband föreligger mellan statens och de kommunalaledarnas engagemang i tillitsreformen vad gäller tillämpningen avledningsprinciperna. Den analytiska slutsats som dras är istället att kommunernasrepresentanter uppfattar det statliga engagerade ledarskapet i tillitsreformen somrelativt svagt. Detta kan därför tänkas haft en hämmande effekt för tillitsreformensgenomslag även i kommunernas styrning och ledning. / The purpose of this thesis has been to examine the presence of trust-based controland management (tillitsbaserad styrning och ledning) and whether, and in that caseto what degree, the swedish trust reform (tillitsreformen) has affected the level oftrust-based control and management being practiced in the highest municipalmanagement groups. The theoretical assumption has been that a committedleadership (engagerat ledarskap) is essential to achieve success in qualityimprovement projects and that the actions of the most senior managementrepresentatives serve as an important role-model that can create trust, but just aswell disbelief, among those who are to carry out the work in practice. An onlinesurvey study has been directed to the most senior professional and politicallyappointed officials in all swedish municipalities. The question asked was to whichdegree those leaders rate each other’s practice of trust-based control andmanagement and how they view the practice of trust-based control and managementin the government’s and state authorities’ relations with the municipalities. Thequestion was also what change in that practice the trust reform has brought. Theresponse frequency has not been sufficient to make the findings generalizable on anational level. The results that have been achieved show that the municipalityleaders rate each other’s practice of trust-based control and management to a higherdegree than the government and state authorities’ dito. The results indicate that it isthe trust-based leadership of the professional municipal officials who overall havebenefited the most from the trust-reform, the professional municipality leaders arealso the most criticising of the state’s practice of trust-based control andmanagement. The state is also where the change in leadership practice based on thetrust reform is considered to have been the least prominent. The principle ofcitizen-focus (medborgarfokus) is the most prominent principle among thepolitically appointed leaders in the municipalities whereas the principle openness(öppenhet) is the primary principe among the professional leaders. The principles ofknowledge (kunskap), citizen-focus, and openness are the primary principles in thegovernment’s and state authorities’ practice of trust-based control and management.The principle of trust (tillit) is the principe with the lowest degree of practise both inthe relationship between professional and politically appointed officials withinmunicipalities and between the municipalities and the state but at the same timetrust is the principle that has seen the most positive change in it’s practice as a resultof the trust reform. The analysis has not been able to determine any correlationbetween the practice of trust-based control and management from the governmentand state authorities and the practice of the same among the municipal leaders.Instead the analytical conclusion is made that the committed leadership from thegovernment and the state in regards to the the trust reform so far has been regardedas relatively shallow by the municipal leaders and that could have had a negativeimpact on the implementation of trust-based control and management in themunicipal management groups as well. / <p>2020-06-26</p>

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