Representations of macro-team and micro-team leadership in socially enterprising contexts

Authors

  • Celso Pais Visiting Professor of the Higher Institute Miguel Torga – Coimbra. Researcher in the Sociology Institute of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oporto.
  • Cristina Parente Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oporto and Researcher in the Sociology Institute (IS-FLUP).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_58-2_5

Keywords:

leadership, macro-team, micro-team, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit organizations

Abstract

In this article, we show how team leadership is represented in nonprofit organizations. We draw upon the concepts of macro-team and micro-team in the social entrepreneurial world.
We have studied seven socially enterprising organizations through semi-structured individual and collective interviews with managers, technicians with and without supervisory functions, and workers. The data discussed here underwent an inductive analysis based on the procedures of grounded-theory. Data analysis indicates the importance of accountable workers both in the macro and micro-team settings. In addition, top managers should be close to the workers in the operational terrain, thus avoiding disruptions in its relations with subordinates. The interviewees’discourse also translate the need for the leader of micro-teams to act as a facilitator.

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Published

2016-08-22

How to Cite

Pais, C., & Parente, C. (2016). Representations of macro-team and micro-team leadership in socially enterprising contexts. Psychologica, 58(2), 75-96. https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_58-2_5

Issue

Vol. 58 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Articles

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