Leading knowledge-workers through situated ambiguity
| Autor: | Anne Kamilla Lund |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Strategy and Management
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Ambiguity Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Statsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori: 240 [VDP] Epistemology Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Psykologi: 260::Organisasjonspsykologi: 268 [VDP] 0502 economics and business Situated 050211 marketing Sociology 050203 business & management Applied Psychology Autonomy media_common |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Journal of Management |
| Popis: | The paper explores how formal leaders make sense of and deal with autonomy of knowledge-workers. Based on interviews, I suggest that leaders make sense of knowledge-workers’ autonomy as ranging from perfectly autonomous to too autonomous to less independent to acting childish. This ambiguity was dealt with by making sense of leading as ranging from facilitative and supportive approaches to more controlling, even reprimanding acts. This empirical investigation of constructions of ‘leader/ship’ and ‘followers’ contributes to leader/ship-follower/ship literature. The paper’s contribution to theory lies in the notion of situated ambiguity; a way to understand the emerging way through which formal leaders navigate and smoothly move between their own differing perspectives, different practical situations, various culturally acceptable understandings of leaders and knowledge-workers. Unit Licence Agreement |
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