Leadership-as-Practice : Theory and Application Paperback / softback
Edited by Joseph Raelin
Part of the Routledge Studies in Leadership Research series
Paperback / softback
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This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement.
Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or behaviours of particular individuals.
A practice is a coordinative effort among participants who choose through their own rules to achieve a distinctive outcome.
It also tends to encompass routines as well as problem-solving or coping skills, often tacit, that are shared by a community.
Accordingly, leadership-as-practice is less about what one person thinks or does and more about what people may accomplish together.
It is thus concerned with how leadership emerges and unfolds through day-to-day experience.
The social and material contingencies impacting the leadership constellation – the people who are effecting leadership at any given time – do not reside outside of leadership but are very much embedded within it.
To find leadership, then, we must look to the practice within which it is occurring.
The leadership-as-practice approach resonates with a number of closely related traditions, such as collective, shared, distributed, and relational leadership, that converge on leadership processes.
These approaches share a line of inquiry that acknowledges leadership as a social phenomenon.
The new focus opens up a plethora of research opportunities encouraging the study of social processes beyond influence, such as intersubjective agency, shared sense-making, dialogue, and co-construction of responsibilities.
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- Pages:310 pages, 6 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/02/2016
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- ISBN:9781138924864
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:310 pages, 6 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/02/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138924864
