The purpose of the essay is based on the idea of masculine and feminine leadership. As well as the criticism of postheroic leadership as gender neutral, and the conflict in whether men's and women's conceptions of leadership differ. This is determined on the basis of the research questions "Do women have a notion of leadership that can be defined as postheroic", "Do women's notion of leadership differentiate from men's notion" and "Do women experience obstacles in their leadership from stereotypical notions of woman". The method used in the essay is a qualitative and quantitative approach. The collection of empirical data was conducted using six semi-structured interviews with respondents who have a managerial role in the private sector. Four of the respondents are women and two are men. In addition, a survey was conducted against the subordinates of the four female respondents to triangulate the leadership of the interviewed women. The thesis theoretical reference frame consists of ‘Heroic leadership’, ‘Postheroic leadership’, ‘Identity and culture’ and ‘Femininity and masculinity’. The result shows that all women in this study seem to have a postheroic notion of leadership in their way to lead. The result also shows that there do not appear to be any differences between men and women's notion of leadership. Instead, it suggests that the context in which leadership is located has a greater impact on the concept of leadership, than gender. The women in this survey do not state any direct obstacles in their leadership from stereotypical notions of the woman. Instead, it appears that it can be an advantage to be a woman in a relationship-oriented leadership.

Den här studien behandlar ämnet ledarskap. Teorier konkluderar att det normativa ledarskapsidealet baseras på det transformativa ledarskapet. Syftet med uppsatsen är att studera om en ny ledare i organisationer gör anspråk på ett normativt ledarskapsideal och vilka konsekvenser det får, samt i vilka avseenden det finns skillnader mellan den nya chefens beskrivningar av intentioner och vad chefens ansett sig ha uppnått överens med medarbetarnas uppfattningar. Två nya ledare, som varit i liknande situationer, har studerats och jämnförts. Resultatet pekar på att nya chefer som försöker följa det normativa ledarskapet kan skapa omedvetna hinder för sig själva. Det transformativa ledarskapet i samband med stilen som ett ideal kan medföra oanade problem för nya chefer så som fantasiföreställningar om sitt eget ledarskap. Nya chefer som inte söker sig till normativa ledarskapet har det däremot lättare att etablera sig och accepteras i deras nya organisationer.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Sociology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Sociology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Sociology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

[pt] Esta pesquisa discutiu a produção de liderança, nas práticas relacionais de uma organização do movimento estudantil brasileiro, na qual foi realizada uma etnometodologia situada em múltiplas localidades onde a organização atua. Desde o retorno do movimento de pós-graduação à cena pública brasileira, em 2019, nas manifestações que ficaram conhecidas como tsunami da educação, contra os cortes orçamentários das universidades federais, o sistema nacional de pós-graduação brasileiro enfrenta o contingenciamento constante de recursos e cortes orçamentários de programas e projetos, que incidem direta e imediatamente sobre a realidade de seus atores. Nesse contexto, organizações representativas de pós-graduação protagonizam um papel importante na produção de práticas de organização, que oferecem às ações de seus participantes um tipo de direcionalidade favorável ao atendimento de suas demandas: liderança. No entanto, pensar a liderança para além das organizações clássicas comuns aos setores privados da sociedade civil empresarial, de modo a conceber suas práticas em estruturas organizacionais informais e descentralizadas, onde a figura de líderes heroicos e individuais desvanece, ainda é um desafio para o campo de pesquisa do fenômeno. Também é desafiador pensar as práticas de liderança fora do pressuposto de alcance de objetivos instrumentais definidos para o bom funcionamento das organizações. Esses desafios, entretanto, não apontam para inexistência da liderança, mas para existência de práticas não empresariais/gerenciais de organização relacionadas ao fenômeno ainda pouco compreendidas em organizações de resistência e luta social. A análise etnometodológica destaca duas práticas de liderança produzidas nas interações entre os participantes da organização estudada. / [en] This research discussed the leadership production in the relational practices of a Brazilian student movement organization in which an ethnomethodology located in multiple locations where the organization operates was carried out. Since the return of the postgraduate movement to the Brazilian public scene in 2019 during the manifestations known as tsunami da educação, against the federal universities budget cuts, Brazilian national postgraduate system face the constant contingency of resources and budget cuts for programs and projects which direct and immediately affect the reality of their actors. In this scenario, postgraduate representative organizations play an important role in producing organizing practices that offer to the actions of their participants a type of directionality favorable to the resolution of their demands: leadership. However, it is still a challenge for the field to think about leadership beyond the classic organizations usually found in private sectors of business-civil society, so as to conceive their practices in informal and decentralized organizational structures, where the figure of heroic and individual leaders fades. It is also challenging to think about leadership practices outside the assumption of achieving instrumental goals defined for the proper functioning of organizations. These challenges, nonetheless, do not indicate the non-existence of leadership, but the existence of non business/managerial organizing practices related to the phenomenon that are still poorly understood in resistance and social struggle organizations. The ethnomethodological analysis highlights two leadership practices produced in the interactions between the participants of the studied organization.