Examining the Contemporary Worker and the Workplace From a Leadership-as-Practice Perspective: A HRD Opportunity

Artikel

In this article the author uses the lens of leadership-as-practice (L-A-P) to analyze the concerns of the worker in the contemporary workplace and proposes both new insights and potential remediations through a post-humanistic leadership centered on practice. L-A-P is designed to probe underneath the accepted or “natural” human resource practices to uncover the power dynamics in the workplace that have led to challenges to the worker in the form of burnout, lack of autonomy, and detachment. After introducing the practice approach to the workplace, the paper interrogates the potential value of leadership being viewed as a collaborative agency constituting changes in the trajectory of prefigured work practices that can have affirmative consequences via its ethical and critical approach to human resource development.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Human Resource Development Review ; ISSN: 1534-4843 ; Year: 2024 ; Issue: OnlineFirst ; Pages: 1-19 ; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Business Administration: General ; Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation ; Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility ; Personnel Economics: Training ; Personnel Economics: Labor Management
• Subject: Workers and the Workplace ; Leadership-as-Practice ; Organizational Change ; Collaborative Agency ; Reflexivity ; Critical Management Studiese

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Raelin, Joseph A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Sage
• (where): Thousand Oaks, CA
• (when): 2024

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1177/15344843241249772
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET