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- Van der Hoek, Groeneveld _ Beerkens (2021) Leadership Behavior Repertoire
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Leadership behavior repertoire: an exploratory study of the concept and its potential for understanding leadership in public organizations
leaders’ behavior. Such a fragmented approach may overlook the most challenging aspect of
effective leadership: combining diverse behaviors in relation to various stakeholders to match
contextual needs. This article therefore argues for a comprehensive approach that recognizes the
behavioral complexity of most contemporary leaders, particularly in ambiguous contexts. The concept
of leadership behavior repertoire facilitates this. The article conceptualizes the perspective
of the leadership behavior repertoire and illustrates in which ways leaders combine behavioral
options from their repertoire using data from in-depth interviews with public leaders. Based on
our findings, we propose integration of this perspective into the field’s research agenda to make
our understanding of leadership in public organizations more complete. Moreover, the repertoire
Show moreRapidly accumulating literature on public leadership tends to zoom in on specific aspects of
leaders’ behavior. Such a fragmented approach may overlook the most challenging aspect of
effective leadership: combining diverse behaviors in relation to various stakeholders to match
contextual needs. This article therefore argues for a comprehensive approach that recognizes the
behavioral complexity of most contemporary leaders, particularly in ambiguous contexts. The concept
of leadership behavior repertoire facilitates this. The article conceptualizes the perspective
of the leadership behavior repertoire and illustrates in which ways leaders combine behavioral
options from their repertoire using data from in-depth interviews with public leaders. Based on
our findings, we propose integration of this perspective into the field’s research agenda to make
our understanding of leadership in public organizations more complete. Moreover, the repertoire
perspective can challenge and advance theorizing of leadership in relation to its context and outcomes
in a more comprehensive way.
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- Hoek, M.A. van der; Groeneveld, S.M.; Beerkens, M.
- Date
- 2021-09-28
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 363 - 378