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- Title
ORGANIZING, LEADERSHIP AND SKILFUL PROCESS.
- Authors
Hosking, Dian Marie
- Abstract
Substantial literature is to be found on `leadership', `organization', and to a lesser extent, social skill. This literature is almost entirely independent, i.e. the central concepts are not integrated. It has been argued that the concepts can, and indeed should, be theorized in relation to one another. A model has been described which does just this. It is believed to represent a truly social psychological approach, combining argument about persons, processes, and contexts. This has been achieved through taking the view that leadership cannot be abstracted from the organizational processes of which it is a part. The study of leadership, properly conceived, is the study of the processes in which flexible social order is negotiated and practised so as to protect and promote the values and interests in which it is grounded. The skills here described are endemic to these processes in that if they are at a low level, the social order will be unlikely to survive long. Equally, to the extent that organizing processes reflect high levels of these skills, the values and interests of the social order are likely to be protected and promoted. To the extent that particular participants are expected and perceived to make consistent, influential, contributions, leaders are argued to make especially important contributions to skilful organizing.
- Publication
Journal of Management Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), 1988, Vol 25, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
0022-2380
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6486.1988.tb00029.x