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Record Nr.

UNINA9910637741703321

Titolo

Debating leaderless management : can employees do without leaders? / / edited by Frederik Hertel, Anders Örtenblad, Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-031-04593-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Debates in Business and Management

Disciplina

733

Soggetti

Decentralization in management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- 1 Introducing the Debate on Leaderless Management -- Introduction -- The Position(s) Taken by the Editors -- Defining "Leader", "Leaderless", "Management", and "Leaderless Management" -- The Content of the Book -- Part I. For Leaderless Management -- Part II. In Between For and Against Leaderless Management -- Part III. Against Leaderless Management -- Part IV. Beyond Leaderless Management -- Epilogue -- A Note on Arguments on Realizability and Desirability -- References -- Part I For Leaderless Management -- 2 The Moral Necessity of Leaderless Organizations -- Introduction -- The Ethical Problem Inherent in Leader-Based Organizations -- A Definition of Leader in Leader-Based Organizations -- Evolution of the Definition of Leader -- The Unethical and Unequal Power Relationship in Leader-Based Organizations -- Why We Think We Need Leaders -- Leading Without Leaders -- The Ethical Use of Power and Equal Power Relationships in Leaderless Organizations -- Effectively Performing Management Functions in Leaderless Organizations -- Peer Councils -- Rotational Stewardship Roles -- Mentoring -- Examples of the Competitive Strength of Leaderless Organizations -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Developing for Leaderless Organizations: Two Eco-Friendly Coaching Practices -- Beyond "Ego-Massaging" Coaching Discourses and Practices --



Learning Informed Coaching -- Communities of Discovery-Based Coaching -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 When Matters Are Too Important to be Left to Leaders and Better Left to Democratic Control -- Introduction -- On Leaderless Management and Different Ways of Questioning the Importance of Leaders -- The Role of Leaders in the Management of the Psycho-Social Work Environment.

A Leader-Maintained Psycho-Social Work Environment-Possible Constraints -- Political Constraints -- Psychological Constraints -- Practical Constraints -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 5 Leaderless Management as the Solution to Struggles Over the Moral Center of Healthcare? Ward Nurses' Critique of Management as "Real Utopias" in the Public Sector -- Introduction -- The Public Sector as Real Utopia -- Managers Changing the Moral Center of the Public sector-From Care to Efficiency -- Conflicts Around the Temporal Web of Care, or the Underestimated Value of Time -- Conflicts Around the Organization of Care, or the Underestimated Value of Caring -- Conflicts Over Resources, or the Underestimated Value of Care -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 6 Dissolving the Leader-Follower Schism: Autonomist Leadership and the Case of Word of Warcraft -- Introduction -- The Autonomist Possibility -- The Case of World of Warcraft (WOW) -- Guilds as Self-Organizations -- Autonomist Leadership in WOW -- Leaderless Management -- Conditions for Leaderless Management -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 In Favor of Leaderless Management: Follettian Perspective of Co-leadership -- Introduction -- Why We Do Not Support Leaderful Management -- Why We Are in Favor of Leaderless Management -- Favorable Co-leaderless Management -- Inauspicious Leaderless Management -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 8 Leaderless Leadership: Implications of the "Agora" and the "Public Library" -- Introduction -- Leaderless Management and Work -- Leaderless Leadership and Action -- The Agora as Places and Spaces for Leaderless Leadership -- "The Public Library" as a Space of Collective Remembrance and as Generosity -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Beyond Leaderlessness: Even Less Than Nothing Is Way Too Much -- Introduction -- Against the Concept of Leaderless Management.

Against Leaders and Leadership -- The Humanistic Approach -- Political Approach -- Against So-Called Anarkist's Organizations -- Epilogue -- References -- Part II In Between For and Against Leaderless Management -- 10 Leaderless Work and Workplace Participation -- Introduction -- The Case for Participation -- Problems with Participation -- A Practical Case for Participation? -- Alternatives to Participatory Approaches -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Who Sustains Whose Passion? -- Introduction -- What Is Passion About in Organizations? -- Passion and (Mis)alignment with Ethics and Leaderless Organizations -- Empirical Illustration of a Passionate Leader in Sport Management -- Findings -- Passion and Ethical Organizations: Toward Shared Leadership -- References -- 12 Leaderless Organization Versus Leading for Creativity: The Case for Creative Leadership -- Introduction -- Leadership Defined -- Why Rethink Leadership: Twenty-First-Century Organizations -- Organizational Creativity and Innovation -- Toward a Creative Outcome: Leaderless Leadership and Creative Leadership -- Creative Leadership -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Against Leaderless Management -- 13 Why Leaders Are Necessary -- Introduction -- Leaderless Organizations -- Why Leaders Are Necessary -- A Leader's Emotional and Inspirational Support Cannot Be Replaced -- Leadership Cannot Be Totally Substituted -- Leaders as Irreplaceable Shapers of Organizational Values -- Final Words -- Note -- References -- 14



Ghostbusters! On the Narrative Creation of (Absent) Leader Characters -- Introduction -- Theoretical Underpinnings -- Now You See Me, Now You Don't-The Case of Tech Ltd -- The Emergence of a Ghost Leader and Leadership Influence -- A Rupture in the Positive Leadership Influence Spiral-The Springboard Speech -- Ghosts Battling It Out-The Struggle Over the Change Efforts.

Learnings and Takeaways from the Tech Ltd Case -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 Against Leaderless Management: What Leaderless Means in South Africa -- Introduction -- Against Leaderless Management -- Dismantling a Hierarchical Regime -- Unethical and Absent Leadership -- Adopting Shared Leadership -- Conclusion -- References -- 16 Leaderless Management: No! Leaders at All Levels: Yes! -- Introduction -- The Leaderless Management Concept -- The Differences Between the Leader and Manager Roles -- Varieties of Leadership at All Levels -- Examples of Leadership at All Levels -- A Way Forward -- References -- 17 Principled Leadership: The Antidote to Leaderless Management -- Introduction -- People Need to Be Led -- Leaderless Management Leads to the Status Quo -- Principled Leadership: The Antidote -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 18 The Enabling Role of Leadership in Realizing the Future -- Introduction -- The Nature of Leadership -- Leading in VUCA -- Rapid Technological Advances -- How Leading Remotely May Mask the "People" Side of Things -- Conscious Leadership in the "New Norm" -- The Character of the New Leadership -- Conclusions -- References -- Part IV Beyond Leaderless Management -- 19 Organizational Management Is Paradoxically Both Leaderless and Leaderful -- Introduction -- Organizational Management Is Leaderless -- Organizational Management Is Leaderful -- Movement Is Coordinated -- Decision-Making Is a Collective Activity -- There Is No Neutrality -- Conclusion -- References -- Epilogue -- Introduction -- Overview of Themes -- Leader Centrism and Methodological Individualism -- Beyond "Beyond …" -- References -- Appendix -- Index.