`Blended Leadership': Employee Perspectives on Effective Leadership in the UK Further Education Sector

Author:

Collinson David1,Collinson Margaret2

Affiliation:

1. Lancaster University, UK,

2. Lancaster University, UK

Abstract

This article explores employee perspectives on effective leadership in UK Further Education (FE). Studies on leadership effectiveness typically seek either to specify the individual qualities of `heroic' leaders or, increasingly, to highlight the collective nature of `post-heroic' leadership. While these discourses are frequently seen as dichotomous and competing, our research found that FE employees often value practices that combine elements of both. They tended to prefer subtle and versatile practices that we term `blended leadership'; an approach that values, for example, both delegation and direction, both proximity and distance and both internal and external engagement. Drawing on other studies which indicate that paradoxical blends of apparently irreconcilable opposites might form the basis for effective leadership, the article considers the implications of this analysis for the study of Higher Education (HE). It concludes by highlighting the potential value of more dialectical approaches to the theory and practice of leadership.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Strategy and Management,Sociology and Political Science

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