Leadership-as-Practice: Theory and Application (Routledge Studies in Leadership Research) - 9781138924857
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9781138924857
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This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or behaviours of particular individuals. A practice is a coordinative effort among participants who choose through their own rules to achieve a distinctive outcome. It also tends to encompass routines as well as problem-solving or coping skills, often tacit, that are shared by a community. Accordingly, leadership-as-practice is less about what one person thinks or does and more about what people may accomplish together. It is thus concerned with how leadership emerges and unfolds through day-to-day experience. The social and material contingencies impacting the leadership constellation - the people who are effecting leadership at any given time - do not reside outside of leadership but are very much embedded within it. To find leadership, then, we must look to the practice within which it is occurring. The leadership-as-practice approach resonates with a number of closely related traditions, such as collective, shared, distributed, and relational leadership, that converge on leadership processes. These approaches share a line of inquiry that acknowledges leadership as a social phenomenon. The new focus opens up a plethora of research opportunities encouraging the study of social processes beyond influence, such as intersubjective agency, shared sense-making, dialogue, and co-construction of responsibilities.
- | Author: Joseph A. Raelin
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Feb 17, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 310 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1138924857
- | ISBN-13: 9781138924857
- Author:
- Joseph A. Raelin
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Feb 17, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 310 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1138924857
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138924857