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To be or not to be, a communicative leader?

Holm, Melinda LU and Holmberg, Emma LU (2018) MGTN59 20181
Department of Business Administration
Abstract
The research field of middle management within elderly care in Sweden is fairly unexplored. Even more
so, there is little to no research on communication or communicative leadership and its influence on
middle management within elderly care. Therefore, this study aims to investigate managers perspective on
communication by interviewing middle managers working with elderly care. Furthermore, the study aims
to contribute with knowledge on the importance of communicative leadership in middle management.
Eight middle managers were interviewed, all working with elderly care for the municipal of
Malmö, Sweden. The study is based on qualitative research and assumes the ontological approach of
social constructivism. The empirical material... (More)
The research field of middle management within elderly care in Sweden is fairly unexplored. Even more
so, there is little to no research on communication or communicative leadership and its influence on
middle management within elderly care. Therefore, this study aims to investigate managers perspective on
communication by interviewing middle managers working with elderly care. Furthermore, the study aims
to contribute with knowledge on the importance of communicative leadership in middle management.
Eight middle managers were interviewed, all working with elderly care for the municipal of
Malmö, Sweden. The study is based on qualitative research and assumes the ontological approach of
social constructivism. The empirical material has been coded and categorized and the key words detected
have been anchored in theories within the fields of middle management, communication and
communicative leadership.
The results of the study show that the way middle managers view and use communication is
influenced by factors such as educational level of the employees, the size of the employee group and
language proficiency. Furthermore, middle manager's perspective on communication is a gradation
between transmission and sensemaking perspective on communication, and where on the scale the middle
manager is depends to the situation and context. A communicative leadership can help ease the workload
for middle managers within elderly care by providing a tool for initiating structure, facilitating work,
managing relational dynamics and representing. The study contributes with new knowledge within the
practices of management and communication as well as offering middle managers working with elderly
care a framework for how to reflect on their use of communication. (Less)
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Holm, Melinda LU and Holmberg, Emma LU
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MGTN59 20181
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H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
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English
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8963647
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  abstract     = {{The research field of middle management within elderly care in Sweden is fairly unexplored. Even more
so, there is little to no research on communication or communicative leadership and its influence on
middle management within elderly care. Therefore, this study aims to investigate managers perspective on
communication by interviewing middle managers working with elderly care. Furthermore, the study aims
to contribute with knowledge on the importance of communicative leadership in middle management.
Eight middle managers were interviewed, all working with elderly care for the municipal of
Malmö, Sweden. The study is based on qualitative research and assumes the ontological approach of
social constructivism. The empirical material has been coded and categorized and the key words detected
have been anchored in theories within the fields of middle management, communication and
communicative leadership.
The results of the study show that the way middle managers view and use communication is
influenced by factors such as educational level of the employees, the size of the employee group and
language proficiency. Furthermore, middle manager's perspective on communication is a gradation
between transmission and sensemaking perspective on communication, and where on the scale the middle
manager is depends to the situation and context. A communicative leadership can help ease the workload
for middle managers within elderly care by providing a tool for initiating structure, facilitating work,
managing relational dynamics and representing. The study contributes with new knowledge within the
practices of management and communication as well as offering middle managers working with elderly
care a framework for how to reflect on their use of communication.}},
  author       = {{Holm, Melinda and Holmberg, Emma}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{To be or not to be, a communicative leader?}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}