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Leadership challenges of large-scale agile transformations
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/73980 Leadership challenges of large-scale agile transformations Uren, Andee ichelp@gibs.co.za Mako, Thuto UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2019. Compelled by the digital transformation revolution and the need for organisational agility in environments of high unpredictability, many organisations are striving to achieve organisational agility by adopting agile practices and agile ways of working, and undertaking enterprise-wide agile transformations. While studies have investigated the challenges such undertakings face, there is little academic research on the experiences of leaders involved in such agile transformations, leading to concerns that research is not addressing challenges faced in practice, and organisations are missing opportunities to provide necessary support. The research method adopted was qualitive and exploratory, limited to a case study of a single organisation in the South African banking sector undertaking an agile transformation. Thirteen in-depth interviews with leaders at senior levels within the organisation were conducted. The study found that leaders had to change leadership styles because of the agile transformation, away from command-and-control towards a combination of distributed, empowering, sharing and servant leadership styles. The study contributes to the academic literature on the leadership of agile transformations for large corporates, and provides organisations with valuable input to improve the success of such undertakings, and to identify the critical leadership attributes for the agile, new ways of working. ls2020 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA 2020-04-06T10:00:05Z 2020-04-06T10:00:05Z 2020/04/01 2019 Mini Dissertation Mako, T 2019, Leadership challenges of large-scale agile transformations, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73980> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73980 en © 2020 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 |
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