Why Should Anyone Work Here?

Acknowledgments

Over the course of almost thirty years, our research has been concerned with two major themes: organizational culture and leadership. The former concern arose from an observation that the old integrators—structures, hierarchies, and careers—were becoming weaker and culture more important; and the latter from a profound dissatisfaction with predominantly psychological approaches to the study of leadership.

To both these areas we have attempted to bring a more distinctively sociological perspective, focusing on the relational aspects of leadership and rescuing the concept of authenticity from an obsession with self-awareness.

Our practical and research involvement in organizations has been driven by two central questions that became ...