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Neoliberalism, Participatory Theory, and Leadership of Self-Governing Teams On the Expansion of Participatory Theory Indicators

Journal of Leadership and Management

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Title Neoliberalism, Participatory Theory, and Leadership of Self-Governing Teams On the Expansion of Participatory Theory Indicators
 
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. The neoliberal capitalist system has created a hyperpatrimonial society and a hypermeritocratic society. Leadership within the United States’ neoliberal economic system has created 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 conclusions of the meta-analysis suggest that participatory theory indicators in wor- ker cooperatives’ ideology, workers’ materialization, and customers’ discourse are more pervasive than neoliberal indicators. The framework synthesis derived from the primary data analysis can inform the organizational practices of worker cooperatives and other socially oriented organizations in creating a more democratic and just workplace.Keywords: participatory theory, worker cooperative, justice, leadership, self-governing teams, neoliberalism, hypermeritocracy
 
Publisher Journal of Leadership and Management
 
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Date 2019-02-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/149
 
Source Journal of Leadership and Management; Vol 1, No 15 (2019): Journal of Leadership and Management
2391-6087
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/149/107
 
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