IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijclma/v3y2016i3p218-243.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Power relations and complex organisational development

Author

Listed:
  • Pieter S.J. Avenant
  • Kurt A. April
  • B.K.G. Peters

Abstract

Human interaction is so important because, in the workplace, you always have to work with other people. As a leader, the way in which you and others relate to each other, authentically and inauthentically and use personal- and collective power within those relationships can create positive, enabling workplace environments, or be places of exclusion and negative engagement. Our research was a qualitative study, informed by complexity theory, of the construct of power relations, investigating the lived experiences of leaders within the complexity of the emerging economy of South Africa. It also further explored the challenges of such an approach in terms of the implementation and openness of people within organisations to engage with power relations, and not just to treat it unconsciously. Key features of our research were unpacking the relevance for leaders, as well as the impact of social dynamics, concepts of power, leader attributes, personal traits and organisational features on power relations.

Suggested Citation

  • Pieter S.J. Avenant & Kurt A. April & B.K.G. Peters, 2016. "Power relations and complex organisational development," International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(3), pages 218-243.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijclma:v:3:y:2016:i:3:p:218-243
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=80320
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jarle Trondal & Thomas Tieku & Stefan Gänzle, 2023. "The organisational dimension of executive authority in the Global South: Insights from the AU and ECOWAS commissions," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 14(1), pages 31-47, February.
    2. Jarle Trondal, 2020. "Public Administration and the Study of Political Order: Towards a Framework for Analysis," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(4), pages 451-461.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijclma:v:3:y:2016:i:3:p:218-243. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=345 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.