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Neoliberalism, Participatory Theory, and Leadership of Self-Governing Teams. Part I

Journal of Leadership and Management

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Title Neoliberalism, Participatory Theory, and Leadership of Self-Governing Teams. Part I
 
Creator Randleman, Rae; Rae Randleman, Ph.D. Candidate
Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies,
School of Professional Studies,
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 99258, USA
e-mail: rrandleman@zagmail.gonzaga.edu
 
Description The notion that the key to social emancipation is through collectivism’s equality or neoliberalism’s individual liberty has proven to be illusory. In reality both utopian theories have culminated in the aggregation of power and wealth within an elite, minority population creating a hyperpatrimonial society and a hypermeritocratic society. Leadership within the United States’ neoliberal economic system creates material conditions of growing inequalities of wealth, income, and opportunity for the majority population. Participatory theorists argue that organizations with leadership of self-governing teams, such as worker cooperatives, reduce inequality and increase freedom. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to investigate the presence or absence of key indicators of participatory theory and neoliberalism in selected worker cooperatives. The preliminary conclusions of the content analysis suggest that participatory theory indicators in worker cooperatives’ ideology, workers’ materialization, and customers’ discourse are more pervasive than neoliberal indicators. Within the data, the top three participatory theory indicators for organizational ideology were interactional justice, leadership of self-governing teams, and some characteristics of the social market economy. For employee materialization the top three indicators were procedural justice, leadership of self-governing teams, and heterarchy. Within the customer discourse the top three indicators were distributive, interactional, and procedural justice.
 
Publisher Institute of Leadership in Management
 
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Date 2016-02-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/85
 
Source Journal of Leadership and Management; Vol 3, No 5-6 (2015): Journal of Leadership and Management
2391-6087
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/85/60
 
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