While change management depends on leadership to be enacted, to date there has been little integration of these two bodies of literature. The key role leaders play in the change process has been noted by change theorists, yet there is no conclusive research that focuses on this relationship between leadership and change. Recent theoretical research has attempted to integrate change as a contextual variable influencing transformational leadership. Such research focuses on determining when organizations will be more receptive to transformational leadership and the match between receptivity level and the actual transformational leadership process. However, this research does not address the issue of the capabilities of transformational leaders required to carry out the pertinent change process. Thus, the purpose of this article is to draw parallels between the change literature and the leadership literature; specifically, the transformational leadership literature that is primarily concerned with the capabilities required to enact change successfully. First, we will describe the latest literature relating to change management. Next, we will review theories of change oriented leadership. Finally, we will integrate these literatures and link them to the articles that comprise this special issue.
Authors: Kathleen Watson, Rajnandini Pillai, Regina Eisenbach
Source: ManagementFirst
Subjects: Change Management, Leadership
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I question the quality of the data, a few years ago we heard about how wireless subscriber costs would be less than land-line costs. Land-line in the heart of the Midwest is less than 5 cents/min for normal users while wireless for normal users is 30 to 69 cents/min. Landline is still the clear winner with or without Low earth orbit satellite. Just another observer not in Telecom.
Very useful – with company examples.