Vaiennettu huono johtaminen: kunta-alan johtamisen diskurssien kriittistä tarkastelua
Abstract
Silenced bad leadership: A critical study
of municipal leadership discourses
This qualitative study compares the views of
subordinates and leaders about bad leadership
in Finland’s municipalities. The material of the
study includes a study report, representing the
subordinate discourse, and seminar proceedings, representing the leader discourse. During
the seminar, the two discourses meet and collide. This article describes and analyzes the
discourses and the consequences of their encounter. The main results are fourfold: first, the
representations of bad leadership, discursively
presented by leaders and subordinates, are different. Subordinates tend to emphasize the role
of the leader, while leaders consider the context
(including the subordinates) as the main explanation for bad leadership. Secondly, bad leaders
do not exist in the leader discourse. Instead and
thirdly, leaders represent themselves as victims
of contextual factors: the dual context of the municipal manager enables the leader to withdraw
from the challenges of the operative context.
Finally, the victim representation is used both
to legitimize bad leadership and to silence the
related subordinate discourse. Limitations and
suggestions for further study are discussed.
Key words: bad leadership, discourse, discourse
analysis, municipality, silence, legitimization
Main Author
Format
Articles
Research article
Published
2015
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Hallinnon tutkimuksen seura
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201808213899Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0359-6680
Language
Finnish
Published in
Hallinnon tutkimus
Citation
- Pynnönen, A. (2015). Vaiennettu huono johtaminen: kunta-alan johtamisen diskurssien kriittistä tarkastelua. Hallinnon tutkimus, 34(1), 61-78.
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