What an Agile Leader Does: The Group Dynamics Perspective

Gren, Lucas; Lindman, Magdalena

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49392-9_12

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“…Agile leadership can be explained by the theory of learning agility. It's based on the ability to adapt to new situations using experiential learning (De Meuse, 2019) agile leadership has been addressed independently of learning agility and its positive reflections on the organization have been revealed by various researches (Akkaya, Üstgörül, 2020;Cestou, 2020;Fitaloka et al, 2020;Gren, Lindman, 2020).…”

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Agilecation: Agile Leadership in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) during the Covid-19 Pandemic a Test Case

2023

European Journal of Contemporary Education

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The current quantitative research examine how the leadership of a teacher training college in an Israeli Higher Education Institiostion (HEI) have dealt with the Covid19 crisis in an agile manner. This Perspectives presents a case study of agile leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic from the viewpoint of the college lecturers'. The Covid-19 outbreak was a 'Black swan' events for educational institutions in Israel. Following the unprecedented transition to distance learning. The pandemic forced higher education institutions to adopt agile leadership behaviors. Previous research has given scant attention to the relationship between running an academic institution and application of an agile leadership during a crisis. The Research Goals were:1. To analyze key processes undertaken by the leadership of the College following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, to ensure the HEI continued functioning during the crisis.2. To examine the evaluation (degree of approval) of the lecturers regarding the steps taken by the colleges leadership.As seen from the findings: The lecturers were persistent in the remote teaching process. Their contact with the students was positive. They perceived the college's leadership as maintaining teaching processes in a highly positive way. They were aware of the ongoing training processes. They felt comfortable contacting those in official roles. The conclusions suggest that ensuring the continued functioning of an organization during a crisis requires agile leadership with skills and competencies multifaceted and direct channels of communication. If we want to sum it up in one word, it can be expressed as Agilication = agility + education + action in higher education.

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Agilecation: Agile Leadership in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) during the Covid-19 Pandemic a Test Case

2023

European Journal of Contemporary Education

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“…In addition, the agile leader’s correct assignment of employees in organizational management processes, their self-awareness that can control their stress and emotions in the face of new situations, and their balanced management understanding provide a positive working environment for employees (Jonier & Josephs, 2007; McPherson, 2016). Accurate and fast decision-making features protect the organization and employees against dangers and transform it into organizational agility, a more perfect and more robust structure (Gren & Lindman, 2020; Joiner, 2019; Nold & Michel, 2016; Young, 2013). Although most of the research on agile leadership focuses on organizational employees, similar results are found in studies conducted at schools and with teachers.…”

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The Mediator Role of Employee Voice in the Effect of Agile Leadership on Teachers’ Affective Occupational Commitment

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The research aims to reveal the effect of teachers’ agile leadership perceptions on their affective occupational commitment and how employee voice plays a mediating role in this effect. The study group of the research consists of 354 teachers working in Istanbul in 2021. The research is carried out according to the relational survey model. Correlation analysis is carried out and tested using the suggested mediation model based on the relationship between the variables to determine the relationship between variables. According to the research findings, the agile leadership characteristics of school principals positively affect their affective occupational commitment. Additionally, mediation analysis showed that employee voice is a partial mediator between agile leadership characteristics and affective occupational commitment. This research contributes to the theory by revealing the important effects of the agile leader in the school. In the light of the findings, the implications of the agile leader, employee voice, and occupational commitment of teachers were discussed, and suggestions were made for future research.

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“…We extends these works by differentiating leadership from management and organization. Only one study has investigated explicit leadership aspects of getting teams to self-organize [26], but from the perspective of an appointed agile leader.…”

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What Makes Effective Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams?

Gren,

Ralph

2022

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Effective leadership is one of the key drivers of business and project success, and one of the most active areas of management research. But how does leadership work in agile software development, which emphasizes self-management and self-organization and marginalizes traditional leadership roles? To find out, this study examines agile leadership from the perspective of thirteen professionals who identify as agile leaders, in different roles, at ten different software development companies of varying sizes. Data from semi-structured interviews reveals that leadership: (1) is dynamically shared among team members; (2) engenders a sense of belonging to the team; and (3) involves balancing competing organizational cultures (e.g. balancing the new agile culture with the old milestone-driven culture). In other words, agile leadership is a property of a team, not a role, and effectiveness depends on agile team members' identifying with the team, accepting responsibility, and being sensitive to cultural conflict. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Agile software development; Programming teams.

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What an Agile Leader Does: The Group Dynamics Perspective

Cited by 22 publications

References 21 publications

Agilecation: Agile Leadership in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) during the Covid-19 Pandemic a Test Case

Agilecation: Agile Leadership in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) during the Covid-19 Pandemic a Test Case

The Mediator Role of Employee Voice in the Effect of Agile Leadership on Teachers’ Affective Occupational Commitment

What Makes Effective Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams?

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