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Fantasies of leadership: Identity Work

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This article explores middle managerial talk and practice connected to expectations of leadership in a planned corporate cultural change programme. Here we explore how a middle manager positions him or herself in relation to contemporary discourse on leadership. We discuss how managerial claims of leadership in practice seem inconsistent with the actual practice. Based on these findings we suggest that leadership ideas could be seen as a kind of fantasy related to identity work, rather than actual practice. We investigate this fantasy in terms of its various sources and relate the fantasy construction to management education and to the planned cultural change in particular.

Publiceringsår

2006

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

203-224

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Leadership

Volym

2

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Business Administration
  • Psychology

Nyckelord

  • fantasy
  • identity control
  • identity work
  • leadership
  • managerial work

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1742-7169