Leadership Configurations  

Oleh:

Gronn, Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Leadership vol. 5 no. 3 (Aug. 2009), page 381–394.
Topik: configuration; convergence; distributed; hybrid; influence; leadership
Fulltext: 381.pdf (272.57KB)

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In this article I argue for a revised unit of analysis in leader ship. I refer to this unit as a configuration. The need for this revision arises out of a reconsideration of ‘distributed’ as a valid and accurate means of representing leader ship. While aggregated, rather than holistic, understandings of distributed leader ship have assumed prominence in educational circles and the public sector, aggregation is an indiscriminate approach to demonopolizing the idea of solo leader ship and decentring ‘the’ leader. By treating pluralities of leaders as numerically equivalent or allof- a-piece, for example, an aggregated understanding makes little allowance for different levels of leader ship and for qualitative differences among leading units. In a number of empirical accounts of distributed leader ship, however, individual leaders still figure prominently as agents of influence, although they frequently do so in company with a variety of emergent ‘small number’ formations. For this reason, the totality of such arrangements represents a time-, space-, context- and membership- bound configuration of influence-based relationships, the dynamics of which, due to the mixed patterning of the formations, are most accurately characterized as ‘hybrid’. Some suggestions are made concerning the significance of this proposed unit revision along with their implications for research into leader ship practice.

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