Managerial Agency: Social and Psychological Power in Leadership
About this ebook
Managerial Agency borrows from the sociology of agency, authority and power; from the psychology of development, identity and personality and from theories of groups, politics and culture marrying these insights with those in organisational, leadership and charisma theory and practice. The Managerial Agent targets their colleagues’ “habitus”, their inner construct of values, views and attitudes; shaping it to conform to the Managerial Agent’s own, thus creating an organisational or industrial ally in achieving their aims.
About the author
Mark Morris is a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist working in Cambridge UK who in a number of health leadership roles reflected upon and then researched the ways that the personality of the leader determines their approach, and the organisational psychology and sociology of getting things done.
