Purpose This paper explores line managers' proactive work behaviors in organizational interventions and ascertains how their management of middle-levelness by aligning with the intervention, or not, influences behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The authors’ findings are based on thematic analysis 20 semi-structured interviews university heads departments responsible for managing interventio...

In this paper we examine middle managers’ struggle over their subject position as strategists in the context of participative strategy processes. Based on a longitudinal case study company undertaking an Open Strategy process, show how wider inclusion front-line employees developing new undermines traditional managers. these findings, develop process model depicting recursive dynamics struggles...

Over 5000 senior managers attending a structured assessment centre completed three tests (Revised NEO Personality Inventory, NEO-FFI; the Myers Briggs Type Indicators, MBTI; the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation, FIRO-B). Given their rank and responsibilities they were categorised as Non-Managers or specialists, Middle Managers and Senior Managers (Manager of Managers or Leaders)....