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Public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in South Africa
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/40077 Public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in South Africa Olivier, Johan ichelp@gibs.co.za Prangley, Anthony UCTD Leadership Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. This study describes the experience of senior private sector leaders who have undertaken initiatives to have a catalytic and positive social impact in South Africa. This work is conceptualised as crossing boundaries to advance the common good. The study first looks at how business leaders can be effective in leading across boundaries to advance the common good. Then Public Integrative Leadership (Crosby and Bryson, 2010a) is compared to the initial findings to see if it adequately describes what it takes for these business leaders to be effective. The study is important because little is known about the boundary crossing leadership work that some late-career senior business leaders embark on. It also contributes to understanding the business-society nexus through the lens of leadership studies. Three relationships surface as crucial to manage including the relationship with government, one’s own company and multi-company partners. And these are influenced by the history and context. Managing them requires a number of capacities including high level interpersonal skills, historical insight, balancing identities and coalition building. Business leaders can draw on some of their experience in the private sector but need to learn some new capacities. Making money, therefore, is somewhat similar and somewhat different from making a difference. The Public Integrative Leadership concept adequately described some of the shared power realities and general tactics involved. The concept insufficiently accounted for elements of own-company buy-in, conflict management, historical dynamics and leader motivation. Some avenues for further developing the concept are highlighted. mngibs2014 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2014-06-09T07:50:53Z 2014-06-09T07:50:53Z 2014-04-30 2014-06-09 Mini Dissertation Prangley, A 2014-06-09, Public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in South Africa, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40077> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40077 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Leadership Public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in South Africa |
| title | Public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in South Africa |
| title_full | Public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in South Africa |
| title_short | Public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in South Africa |
| title_sort | public integrative leadership amongst business leaders in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Leadership |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40077 |