The Growing Demand for Synoptic Minds in Industry

Ericson, Richard F.

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“…Their vulnerability is based upon unmet needs, negative self-evaluations, and psychological immaturity. Ericson's 26 developmental theory indicates that maturity involves forming an integrated and socially valued identity. Persons lacking a firm sense of self tend to identify with cultural heroes and to internalize their values.…”

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An investigation of destructive leadership in a Division I intercollegiate athletic department: Follower perceptions and reactions

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2016

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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Recent events in intercollegiate athletic department organizational cultures demonstrate the need to examine the experiences of personnel who serve in a toxic leadership culture. The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify how three head coaches, one associate athletic director, and a facilities manager perceived and reacted to 6 years of destructive leadership. Each participant was interviewed for 60-90 min. Consistent with Padilla, Hogan, and Kaiser's (2008) toxic triangle theory, findings suggest that perceptions and reactions to the evaluated athletic department were seemingly negative. The leadership and actions of two head coaches, the athletic director, and the university president were perceived as destructive to the department and the institution. The culprits of the destructive consequences were the university's lack of internal and external checks and balances, a president who centralized control, and an absence of effective athletic department leadership. Follower repercussions identified were avoidance of the athletic director, keeping opinions to oneself, and adherence; followers employed their strategies to avert conflict or job termination.

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Section: Destructive Leadership and Contextual Factorsmentioning

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An investigation of destructive leadership in a Division I intercollegiate athletic department: Follower perceptions and reactions

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2016

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“…The Carnegie funded report (Gordon and Howell, 1959) and the Ford Foundation funded report (Pierson, 1959) found management education flawed: there was too much vocational orientation, it was not general enough, there needed to be greater emphasis on quantitative and analytical skills, and more research focus and intellectual rigour. Criticisms gave rise to a wave of reorganisation (Ericson, 1960; Carzo, 1960; Towle, 1960), and the appearance of many new journals. In 1957 and 1960, the Fund for Adult Education published collections of essays by leading practitioners and educators on what a liberal education could contribute to management development (Goldwin and Nelson, 1957/1960) illustrating the tension between understanding, knowledge and performance.…”

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Frameworks of managerial competence: limits, problems and suggestions

Ruth

2006

Journal of European Industrial Training

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PurposeTo offer a coherent critique of the concept of managerial frameworks of competence through the exploration of the problems of generalizability and abstraction and the “scientific” assumptions of management.Design/methodology/approachEmploys the ecological metaphor of intellectual landscape and extends it to examining the development of the field of management, its early contours which traversed a diversity of conceptualisations such as management as an art, or an expression of personality, or as a vocation, the search for coordinates and a scientific image, and finally, a comparison of agri‐business and market gardening. The argument is illustrated by reference to particular management development programmes.FindingsThe argument is made that frameworks of competence impose conceptual limitations – “monocultures of the mind” – that are destructive. Justifying coordinates in an activity that is always particular, contextual and socially constructed faces the problem of finding stable evidence in a turbulent ecology and “frameworks of competence” are beset with problems of definition. However, with an understanding of power and discourse, and the application of the landscape metaphor such frameworks can be productively illuminated. What seems to be required is a wholesale shift in values and a re‐evaluation of the meaning and purpose of work.Practical implicationsUseful to curriculum designers and programme developers to analyse their work.Originality/valueProvides a detailed coherent account of the emergence of the concept of competency, and subjects the concept to wide‐ranging critical review.

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The Growing Demand for Synoptic Minds in Industry

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An investigation of destructive leadership in a Division I intercollegiate athletic department: Follower perceptions and reactions

An investigation of destructive leadership in a Division I intercollegiate athletic department: Follower perceptions and reactions

Frameworks of managerial competence: limits, problems and suggestions

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