Practicing leadership-as-practice in content and manner

Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory

This paper describes the emerging field of practice theory as it is practiced in relation to organizational phenomena. We identify three approaches — empirical, theoretical, and philosophical — that relate to the what, the how and the why of using a practice lens. We discuss three principles of the theoretical approach to practice, and offer examples of how practice theory has been used in the ...

Phronesis, Artifacts and Leadership Practice

This paper develops Aristotle’s idea of phronesis, or practical wisdom, as a framework to access, represent and communicate the complexity of successful instructional leadership practice in schools. The design and use of artifacts, the tools leaders develop and implement in their practice, provide a window into the patterns of problem-setting and problem-solving that guide the expression of phr...

Transformational leadership in nursing practice.

Traditionally, nurses have been over-managed and led inadequately, yet today they face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Organisations constantly face changes that require an increasingly adaptive and flexible leadership. This type of adaptive leadership is referred to as 'transformational'; under it, environments of shared responsibilities that influence new ways of knowing are creat...

Defining Leadership as Process Reference Model: Translating Organizational Goals into Practice Using a Structured Leadership Approach

Effective leadership in organisations is important to the achievement of organizational objectives. Yet leadership is widely seen as a quality that individuals innately possess, and which cannot be learned. This paper makes two assertions; (a) that leadership is a skill that not only can b e learned, but which can be formalized into a Process Reference Model that is intelligible to practitioner...

James Leadership in context Lessons from new leadership theory and current leadership development practice