Ledarskap och Stress : en kvalitativ studie om ledarrollens betydelse i stressiga situationer
(2005)Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- Previous research in the area of leadership and stress has shown that the leader plays an important role but in what way is still an issue to explore. A qualitative approach was used in this study to develop an increased understanding of the leader's experience of stress using four themes; leadership, stress, control and organizational factors. A total of 12 semi-structured and un-structured interviews were carried out with 6 leaders, three females and three males. The data was transcribed and thematic as well as narrative analysis was conducted.
The results indicates that leadership stress is caused by a lack of control and that factors intrinsic to the role as a leader both facilitates and complicates the leaders situation when facing... (More) - Previous research in the area of leadership and stress has shown that the leader plays an important role but in what way is still an issue to explore. A qualitative approach was used in this study to develop an increased understanding of the leader's experience of stress using four themes; leadership, stress, control and organizational factors. A total of 12 semi-structured and un-structured interviews were carried out with 6 leaders, three females and three males. The data was transcribed and thematic as well as narrative analysis was conducted.
The results indicates that leadership stress is caused by a lack of control and that factors intrinsic to the role as a leader both facilitates and complicates the leaders situation when facing stress. (Less)
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- author
- Lindman, Mina and Lundin, Björn
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- ledarskap, stress, stresshantering, organisationskultur, leadership, coping, corporate culture, Psychology, Psykologi
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1331646
- date added to LUP
- 2005-06-17 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2005-06-17 00:00:00
@misc{1331646,
abstract = {{Previous research in the area of leadership and stress has shown that the leader plays an important role but in what way is still an issue to explore. A qualitative approach was used in this study to develop an increased understanding of the leader's experience of stress using four themes; leadership, stress, control and organizational factors. A total of 12 semi-structured and un-structured interviews were carried out with 6 leaders, three females and three males. The data was transcribed and thematic as well as narrative analysis was conducted.
The results indicates that leadership stress is caused by a lack of control and that factors intrinsic to the role as a leader both facilitates and complicates the leaders situation when facing stress.}},
author = {{Lindman, Mina and Lundin, Björn}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Ledarskap och Stress : en kvalitativ studie om ledarrollens betydelse i stressiga situationer}},
year = {{2005}},
}