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Leadership Metaphors as expressions of Implicit Leadership Theories in Germany and the Czech Republic.

KONEČNÁ, Z. KEUSCHER, T.

Original Title

Leadership Metaphors as expressions of Implicit Leadership Theories in Germany and the Czech Republic.

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Implicit Theories about leader and follower or about leadership attributes and contexts are important to understand managerial leadership processes. In our attempt to understand leadership behaviours in Central and East European Countries (CEE), we address a widely neglected aspect of management behaviour in countries of transition. Metaphors of Leadership as specific culturally endorsed verbal expressions of Implicit Leadership Theories (ILT). Our comparative case study is theoretically based on the concept of Implicit Leadership Theories (e.g. Junker & van Dick, 2014) and influenced by Alvesson and Spicer’s “Metaphors We Lead By” from 2011. Overall, we analysed 60 different newspaper articles. In this paper, we present our first results of this workin-progress-project in form of two short country analyses, and a culture-comparative part. The country omparison of our results shows overlaps and differences in the use of Leadership Metaphors in both countries. On top of that, our study identified Leadership Metaphors that were not yet used in Alvesson & Spicer (2011) typology so far. So finally, we further develop this typology and proposed directions for further research.

Keywords

Implicit Leadership Theory; leadership; leader; follower; CEE Countries; Germany

Authors

KONEČNÁ, Z.; KEUSCHER, T.

Released

30. 4. 2019

Publisher

Brno University of Technology

Location

Brno

Pages from

117

Pages to

128

Pages count

11

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT171456,
  author="Zdeňka {Konečná} and Thierry {Keuscher}",
  title="Leadership Metaphors as expressions of Implicit Leadership Theories in Germany and the Czech Republic.",
  year="2019",
  pages="117--128",
  publisher="Brno University of Technology",
  address="Brno"
}