Socialtjänstens mellanchefer: Uttryck av ledarskapsstilar i en gräsrotsbyråkrati
(2024) SOAM21 20241School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Leadership has long been a major interest worldwide and the subject has been studied and defined in different areas. Leadership styles have emerged, and leadership styles in social work have been highlighted as having altruistic traits, which are central in a street-level bureaucracy. Being the closest manager to social workers means being the first-line manager. This middle management position and how it is experienced and expressed in social services have been the focus of this master's thesis in connection with theories of leadership styles as explanatory concepts. Therefore, twelve middle managers in Swedish social services have been interviewed about their leadership role. The aim has been to generate knowledge about how social... (More)
- Leadership has long been a major interest worldwide and the subject has been studied and defined in different areas. Leadership styles have emerged, and leadership styles in social work have been highlighted as having altruistic traits, which are central in a street-level bureaucracy. Being the closest manager to social workers means being the first-line manager. This middle management position and how it is experienced and expressed in social services have been the focus of this master's thesis in connection with theories of leadership styles as explanatory concepts. Therefore, twelve middle managers in Swedish social services have been interviewed about their leadership role. The aim has been to generate knowledge about how social service first-line managers express their leadership and how they experience their leadership role in relation to their middle management position. What has emerged in the study is that the middle managers in social services express different leadership styles, and what they express is closely linked to the essence of social work. They focus on teamwork with co-workers and on close client work. The context of leadership taking place in a street-level bureaucracy thus seems to be important. (Less)
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- author
- Bosdotter Tavassolli, Theres LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOAM21 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Leadership styles, street-level bureaucracy, social work, middle management and social services.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9162254
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- 2024-06-12 15:05:11
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abstract = {{Leadership has long been a major interest worldwide and the subject has been studied and defined in different areas. Leadership styles have emerged, and leadership styles in social work have been highlighted as having altruistic traits, which are central in a street-level bureaucracy. Being the closest manager to social workers means being the first-line manager. This middle management position and how it is experienced and expressed in social services have been the focus of this master's thesis in connection with theories of leadership styles as explanatory concepts. Therefore, twelve middle managers in Swedish social services have been interviewed about their leadership role. The aim has been to generate knowledge about how social service first-line managers express their leadership and how they experience their leadership role in relation to their middle management position. What has emerged in the study is that the middle managers in social services express different leadership styles, and what they express is closely linked to the essence of social work. They focus on teamwork with co-workers and on close client work. The context of leadership taking place in a street-level bureaucracy thus seems to be important.}},
author = {{Bosdotter Tavassolli, Theres}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Socialtjänstens mellanchefer: Uttryck av ledarskapsstilar i en gräsrotsbyråkrati}},
year = {{2024}},
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