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Leadership in Agile Organizations
Which leadership is needed in today’s public organizations?
Sandra GroeneveldInstitute of Public AdministrationLeiden Leadership Centre27 October 2016
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Leadership
Leadership (Yukl, 2006)the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives
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Public Leadership
Public leadership of the 21st century is …
• Distributed• Shared• Inclusive• Connective• Transformational• …
Common thread: focus on leaders’ behavior without regarding the organizational context in which it should be embedded.
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Ambivalence in Public Leadership
Bureaucracy
Antipode of
bureaucracy
Responsiveness
Resilience
Flexibility
Innovativeness
Equity
Efficiency
Reliability
Predictability
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Ambidexterity (March, 1991)
Explorationincreasing variance
experimentationsearching for
alternativesrisk taking
Adaptive leadership
Exploitationreducing varianceadherence to rulesalignmentrisk avoidance
Administrative leadership
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Complexity leadership (Uhl-Bien, Marion & McKelvey, 2007)
Enabling leadership – managing the entanglement between administrative and adaptive structures
• Foster interactions and interdependencies that are consistent with the strategy and mission of the organization and prevent administrative leaders from killing them.
• Facilitate the integration of creative outcomes into the administrative structures.