A
key
debate
within
leadership
research
is
whether
leadership
can
be
conceptualized
as
a
specialized
role
occupied
by
individuals
or
as
a
shared
influence
process
amongst
all
members
of
a
group
(Yukl,
2006).
Since
the
mid-‐
1990s
some
leadership
scholars,
as
a
counterpoint
to
the
dominance
of
the
former
and
using
terms
such
as
shared
and
distributed
leadership,
have
attempted
to
elaborate
new
‘post-‐heroic’
leadership
models
(Badaracco,
2001)
of
the
latter,
in
which
leadership
is
something
that
involves
all
group
members.
These
new
forms
of
leadership
are
often
positioned
as
something
that
organizations
can
implement
as
part
of
an
adaptive
response
to
a
rapidly
changing
world.
Despite
a
50-‐year
tradition
of
construing
leadership
as
a
group
level
construct,
little
attention
has
been
paid
in
these
emerging
debates
to
the
systems
psychodynamic
perspective.
From
this
perspective
there
are
grounds
for
suspecting
that
attempts
to
implement
shared
leadership
may
compound
rather
than
ameliorate
issues
related
to
adaptive
challenges
(Huffington,
James
and
Armstrong,
2004).
This
thesis
engages
with
the
shared
and
distributed
leadership
literatures
and
examines
how
a
systems
psychodynamic
perspective
can
contribute
not
only
to
debates
within
these
literatures
but
to
the
wider
controversies
in
the
leadership
literature.
This
thesis
reports
on
the
findings
of
a
single,
18-‐month,
longitudinal
case
study
of
a
senior
team
whose
managing
director
attempted
to
implement
shared
leadership.
Using
a
clinical
fieldwork
methodology
(Schein,
1987)
in
the
systems
psychodynamic
tradition
(Miller,
1993b;
Miller
and
Rice,
1967),
this
study
advances
a
number
of
contributions
to
theory.
These
include:
findings
that
challenge
existing
approaches
to
conceptualizing
leadership
–
shared
or
otherwise;
the
elucidation
of
complex
unconscious
team
processes
that
are
mobilized
as
a
senior
team
undertakes
adaptive
work;
and
thirdly,
a
more
sophisticated
and
theoretically
robust
conceptualization
of
leadership
as
a
group
level
phenomenon.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CRANFIELD1/oai:dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk:1826/7921 |
| Date | 02 1900 |
| Creators | Fitzsimons, Declan |
| Contributors | Turnbull James, Kim |
| Publisher | Cranfield University |
| Source Sets | CRANFIELD1 |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or dissertation, Doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | © Cranfield University 2013. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright owner. |
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