Relational Perspectives on Leading

by Rasmussen, Jørgen Gulddahl; Larsen, Mette Vinther

• ISBN13: 9781137509390
• ISBN10: 1137509392
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-06-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Relational Perspectives on Leading discusses leadership from a relational and social constructionism perspective as practiced on an everyday basis between people. The book pursues a fast growing, practice-based approach - particularly within the Anglo-Saxon parts of the world - to organization studies and organizational phenomena. This approach allows more micro-oriented and incremental aspects of organizational practices to be explored.

Key concepts explored within this perspective revolve around plurality, emergence, interpretation, communication, meaning, linguistic turn, practice, coincidence, in-situ, co-construction and the ability to construct new ways to move forward in relation with other. The authors analyse these concepts by integrating theory and practice in concrete organizational examples.

Author Biography

Jørgen Gulddahl Rasmussen is Professor at the Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is a teacher and researcher within organizing, strategy and management. Through a number of years, he has had different managerial positions within the educational sector.
 
Mette Vinther Larsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is a teacher and researcher within strategy, communication and management, and coordinator of the master program in strategy and organizing at Aalborg University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Relational Leading
2. Leadership In Relational And Distributed Practice
3. Communication As Relational Practice Of Leading
4. Dialog And Power
5. Relational Creation Of Leadership Identity
6. Leaders Use Of Maps, Guiding, And Momentary Meaningful Actions
7. Developing The Competence To Lead In Everyday Situations
8. Relational Leadership: Ontology And Practice