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Timea Havar-Simonovich,
Daniel Simonovich
(eds.)
Contemporary Theory and
Practice of Organizations
Part II: Leading and Changing
the Organization
Timea Havar-Simonovich,
Daniel Simonovich
(eds.)
CONTEMPORARY THEORY AND
PRACTICE OF ORGANIZATIONS
Part I: Leading and Changing
the Organization
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Contents
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 7
Section I: Leadership ............................................................................................... 9
Authentic Leadership ............................................................................................... 11
Melanie Schmid, Timea Havar-Simonovich
Charismatic Leadership ........................................................................................... 25
Jonathan Kappler, Thomas Schmidt
Humble Leadership .................................................................................................. 39
Katharina Sophie Vorwig, Felix Weichsel
Section II: Coaching .............................................................................................. 53
Leadership Coaching ............................................................................................... 55
Simon Knoll, Cormac Stafford, Debora Benson
Executive Coaching ................................................................................................. 75
Maren Bärenfänger, Timea Havar-Simonovich
Team Coaching ........................................................................................................ 89
Alyssa Mattwig, Anna Lena Theine, Debora Benson
Section III: Organizational Interventions ......................................................... 103
Organizational Consulting ..................................................................................... 105
Corinna Horn, Lisa Molitor
Change Agents ....................................................................................................... 119
Xenia Davidoff, Patrick Bertram
Organizational Learning ........................................................................................ 133
Daniel Dierkes, Christian Enderle
Turnaround Management ....................................................................................... 147
Michaela Kegel, Lukas Söntgerath
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Introduction
This is the second of two volumes dedicated to the state of research and practice in
organizations. It is a joint effort of graduates of the Master’s in International Man-
agement at ESB Business School at Reutlingen University in Germany. While the
first volume is dedicated to understanding the organization, this volume focuses on
leading and changing organizations. It does so by highlighting current knowledge
and the need for further research in three contemporary areas of organizational
leadership: modern leadership approaches, coaching practices and organizational
interventions.
Dedicated to recent or re-emerging aspects leadership, the first section looks at the
role of authenticity, charisma and humility in business leadership. Leaders’ charis-
ma has been studied with continuing interest, resulting in frameworks and contribu-
tions that link charismatic leadership to followers’ and organizational performance.
While many authors emphasize the positive nature of that link, others disagree,
which lends to the need for some further research. In the absence of a universally
accepted definition, authentic leadership and its effect on business performance
have been subject to debate. Like authentic leadership, humble leadership has
played an important role recently in leadership practice and research, while suffer-
ing from the absence of a universally accepted definition. Furthermore, humility in
leaders can be viewed from different angles including cognitive, motivational and
appearance-related perspectives. Thus the contribution on humble leadership high-
lights empirical efforts that draw on a wide range of methodological approaches.
The second section of this volume is dedicated to coaching in business, a practice
that has progressed to an overwhelming presence in the corporate world. However,
this popularity has not lead to according efforts in research. In fact, the literature on
leadership coaching is dominated by practitioner articles that focus on best practic-
es. The contribution on leadership coaching presented in this section presents a re-
view of underrepresented empirical works and derives important research gaps to
be filled. A further contribution in this section looks at the related topic of execu-
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tive coaching and its impact on organizations, where the reviewed literature wit-
nesses, among others, the need for accurate measurement of results. Team coaching
concludes the second section of this volume.
The third and last section of this book takes on concepts and instruments relevant
for organizational change. The interest in the process of planned change has created
the professional role of the change agent. While research on this role arguably
spans half a century, some underexplored areas are highlighted and suggestions for
future research made. A domain almost neglected in research, it seems, is organiza-
tional consulting. While this subject has been influenced by more established areas,
such as organizational development, many unexplored areas can be identified. By
contrast, organisational learning has enjoyed academic attention and debates dating
back to the 1960s. The contribution on organizational learning, and the related no-
tion of the learning organization, provides a structured literature review and turns
the attention to the concept’s breadth and ambiguity. Turnaround management, the
systematic and rapid implementation of a range of measures to correct a seriously
unprofitable situation, concludes the section on organizational interventions. Re-
search on this practice-inspired topic is screened and discussed with emphasis on
root causes of decline, the turnaround process and promising management ap-
proaches.
Overall, this volume brings together ten contemporary topics relevant for leading
and changing today’s organizations, while showing to what extent research efforts
have achieved to supply substantiated knowledge and guidance.
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Section I: Leadership
