TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lakomski,Gabriele
ED  - Askews & Holts
TI  - Managing without leadership: towards a theory of organizational functioning 
SN  - 9780080456683 (ebook) :
AV  - HD58.9 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Amsterdam, Oxford
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Leadership
KW  - Organizational effectiveness
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Education
KW  - thema
KW  - Business & Management
KW  - Personnel & human resources management
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - In a critical examination of leadership theories past and present, Lakomski explores a naturalistic account of organizational functioning and organization design that includes leaders as non-privileged agents in the cognitive fabric of organizational life; A critical examination of leadership theories past and present, Managing without Leadership argues that leadership as traditionally understood does not explain organizational functioning. Bounded by empiricist assumptions and methodology, and including a narrow theory of mind as symbol processor, leadership theories are unable to support their claims about leaders and their actions. Drawing on coherentist epistemology, connectionism, and the theory of self-organizing dynamic systems, a naturalistic account of organizational functioning and organization design is explored that includes leaders as non-privileged agents in the cognitive fabric of organizational life
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