Managers Doing Leadership

The Extra-Ordinarization of the Mundane

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9891479
AutoresMats Alvesson (0000-0001-8709-4684, Lund University, autor correspondente), Stefan Sveningsson (Lund University, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume56
Fascículo12
Páginas1435-1459
Data de publicação2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00187267035612001
OpenAlexW2125318504
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas103
Referências citadas17

Based on a case study of managers in a large, international knowledge-intensive company this article suggests a rethinking of leadership, taking the mundane, almost trivial, aspects of what managers/leaders actually do seriously. In the study, the managers interviewed emphasized the importance of listening and informal chatting. Managers listening to subordinates are assumed to have various positive effects, e.g. people feel more respected, visible and less anonymous, and included in teamwork. Rather than certain acts being significant in themselves, it is their being done by managers that gives them a special, emotional value beyond their everyday significance. Leadership is conceptualized as the extra-ordinarization of the mundane

Active listening · Management · Political science · Public relations · Shared leadership · Sociology · Teamwork · Transactional leadership · Value (mathematics · Emotional Intelligence and Performance · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology