Reimagining Organisational Change Leadership

Citation

Burnes B, Hughes M & By RT (2018) Reimagining Organisational Change Leadership. Leadership, 14 (2), pp. 141-158. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715016662188

Abstract
Reimagining organisational change leadership orthodoxy requires revisiting the seminal work of Kurt Lewin and James M. Burns. Being the 20thcentury most influential organisational change and leadership scholars, both radically reimagined their respective fields. However, often misinterpreted, misunderstood and even misrepresented, their true recommendations were largely ignored. In this article we discuss why this is so. Despite three decades of transformation and organisational change leadership discourse, leadership is still in crisis. Working towards an alternative to the current orthodoxy, we reimagine organisational change leadership as a utilitarian consequentialist process.

Keywords
Leadership; Followership; Ethics; Utilitarian consequentialist approach; Kurt Lewin; James M. Burns; Organisational change

Journal
Leadership: Volume 14, Issue 2