Ledningsfunktion i omvandling : Om förändringar av yrkesrollen för första linjens chefer inom den kommunala äldre- och handikappomsorgen
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Summary, in English
The aim of this dissertation is to shed light on how politicians and managers view, experience and describe management and leadership in three types of local authority organisations. The focus is on the demands on managers and how the working conditions for managers are described in the different organisations.
The material includes three different empirical methods. The first is a questionnaire to politicians and local authority officials, mainly managers at different levels in the care of the elderly and persons with disabilities. The second method consists of qualitative interviews with politicians and managers. The third method involved a document study of local authority documents, e.g. official guidelines, plans and evaluations. The method of analysis, a ?qualified content analysis? is inspired by discourse analysis and focuses on a comparison between the different local authorities, between politicians and managers and between women and men.
This dissertation shows that the organisational changes brought about unexpected consequenses for management and that the demands differ between politicians and managers and between different organisations. Politicians and higher-level management expect the managers to manage the organisation, and employees expect them to lead. The solution seems to be a high level of competence, but which competence is needed? There are two different ideals for leadership. One is associated with focus on effectiveness and efficiency and the other associated with focus on communication. The dissertation highlights the conditions of a management, which is currently being pushed further down in the organisation. The dilemma of leadership ? being a manager or a leader will not disappear. Somewhere in the organisation the perspective of effectiveness and efficiency and the perspective of communication have to meet. It might be seen as a dilemma that will not go away ? only be placed in different levels in the organisation.
Department/s
Publishing year
2005
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Lund Dissertations in Social Work
Volume
21
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Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University, School of Social Work/Intellecta DocuSys, Göteborg
Topic
- Social Work
Keywords
- theory of social work
- Social changes
- Social sciences
- discourse
- social work
- decentralisation
- self-managed work team
- New Public Management
- organisational reform
- care of persons with disabilities
- leadership
- care of the elderly
- management
- care manager
- Social problems and welfare
- national insurance
- Care and help to handicapped
- Sociala förändringar
- Samhällsvetenskaper
- teorier om socialt arbete
- Sociala problem
- social välfärd
- socialförsäkring
- Handikappade
- vård och rehabilitering
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Jan Petersson
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1650-3872
- ISBN: 91-89604-28-8
Defence date
21 May 2005
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Socialhögskolan, Bredgatan 26, Lund
Opponent
- Elisabeth Berg (Docent)