Distributed leadership and employee cynicism: Trade unions as joint change agents

Butler, Peter and Tregaskis, Olga ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9954-5152 (2018) Distributed leadership and employee cynicism: Trade unions as joint change agents. Human Resource Management Journal, 28 (4). pp. 540-554. ISSN 0954-5395

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Abstract

The themes of change management and workplace partnership continue to attract significant academic interest – albeit within discreet literatures. Drawing on longitudinal, qualitative data in a heavy engineering organization this article details how a collaborative partnership between management and trade unions, encompassing a distributed’ leadership format, was configured to enhance organizational capacity for change in the context of significant employee cynicism. Bridging human resource management/organizational behaviour and industrial relations perspectives the works makes a theoretical contribution to our understanding of the factors underpinning the successful implementation of workplace partnership and the utilisation of distributed leadership configurations. More generally the work informs leadership theory through its scrutiny of distributed leadership in situations of high conflict.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	change management,social partnership,leadership,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 May 2018 08:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 03:45
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67000
DOI:	10.1111/1748-8583.12199

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