The use of coaching is fairly up to date in the business world although it’s relatively new. Despite this, there’s a lack of clarity about what coaching is and what it signifies. Our point is however not to define coaching. Based on the normative coaching literature, the purpose is, from a critical discourse analysis to explore the power relations that affect the coach and coached in their relation to each other, so as to be able to criticize managerial coaching relationship as presented in the literature. This will contribute to enabling for a more open discourse. The theoretical image of managerial coaching described by the literature as a democratic exercised leadership by a certain type of behavior and attitudes, will lead to improved organizational performance. For this to be possible, the relationship between coach/manager and coached/co-workers need to be characterized by safety, trust and equality. This is considered to be complex, given the power and dependency relationship prevailed between manager and employee. The empirical data on which the analysis is partly based on, have been collected through semi-structured interviews with a group within the National Insurance Office in Karlskoga, consisting of managers and employees where a coaching leadership is applied. Coaching relationship has been explored with the aid of Faircloughs analytical model and therefore conclusions could be obtained, which is that the coaching relationship is characterized by a variety of power conditions affecting coach and coached in their relation to each other. Among other things, it has emerged that the coach is governing the coached thoughts and thus indirectly also the coached acting. Managerial coaching is therefore considered according to us not to be a democratic exercised leadership but may instead implying to be more controlling in comparison with the “traditional” leadership.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-29926 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Hadad, Rymond, Söderberg Jansson, Sandra |
| Publisher | Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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