Creating Organizational Value through Dialogical Leadership [electronic resource] : Boiling Rice in Still Water / by Rens van Loon.

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Creating Organizational Value through Dialogical Leadership [electronic resource] : Boiling Rice in Still Water / by Rens van Loon.

9783319588896
3319588893
9783319588889

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2017.

English

1 online resource (XXVIII, 271 pages 48 illustrations, 46 illustrations in color.) : online resource

10.1007/978-3-319-58889-6 doi

HF5548.7-5548.85

158.7

This book demonstrates Dialogical Leadership which is the workplace application of the Dialogical Self Theory, first developed by Dutch psychologist Hubert Hermans in the 1990s. It encourages scientists and science-practitioners interested in leadership issues to discuss the power of dialogue in solving workplace culture problems. Van Loon's work extends the concept of Dialogical Self Theory to the leadership of organizations, drawing on social constructionism by the American psychologist Ken Gergen and the leadership framework of British academic Keith Grint. This book explicitly links the health of organizations to the psychological and emotional health of those who lead them, concluding with the factors of teamwork and motivation. Dialogical Leadership jettisons the idea that organizations are run by 'superheroes', presenting a more realistic picture of the workplace. This is the first book to isolate 'generative dialogue' as the key mechanism for successful change and transformation programs in organizations. It rejects the idea that successful organizations are 'rational systems' conforming to scripts laid down by leaders, and it places dialogue and co-creation - 'reciprocal exchange' - at the heart of successful change programs. It starts from the kinds of questions leaders ask themselves - their 'interior dialogue' - and the quality of their interactions with others - their external dialogues - which can as shown in this book, be the difference between success and failure.

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