CERGAS Seminar "Getting your message across: Musings on the evolution of vision, managed pluralisation of leadership, and surviving the Human Relations review process."

Roman will start the seminar by presenting empirical and theoretical insights from his research on the evolution of leadership vision, recently published in Human Relations. The presentation will illuminate how the processual dynamics, content and sources of vision evolve when senior teams are undergoing a transition from hierarchical to collective leadership. Drawing upon a qualitative longitudinal study within a UK-based university-healthcare partnership, Roman and colleagues have developed a process model that highlights three stages in the evolution of vision (‘problematising’, ‘debating’ and ‘accepting’) and accounts for variation in how different components of vision evolve over time. Their contribution lies in underscoring the heterogeneous, temporally fluid and contested nature of vision; its continuous shaping as a result of the dynamic interplay between individualistic and collectivistic forces; and the multifocal and multidirectional agentic influences involved in its evolution. Managed pluralisation, viewed as an interplay between hierarchical and collective forms of control, leads to accommodation and incorporation of divergent views within the evolving shared vision, facilitating acceptance but diluting the potential of the resulting vision to stimulate change. In conclusion, Roman will share his experience of dealing with the peer review process in Human Relations, highlighting how the feelings of helplessness, low self-confidence and loss of hope were alleviated by adopting a ‘gambling’ approach, securing strong peer support, and using reviewers’ comments as a life raft, a scaffold and an amulet.

Speaker:

Roman Kislov is Professor of Health Policy and Management at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has substantial experience in leading qualitative longitudinal research into the processes and practices of knowledge mobilisation. Roman’s research interests include communities of practice, boundary spanning, collective leadership and theory development. His work crosses disciplinary boundaries between organisation studies, public administration and implementation science. Roman is Knowledge Mobilisation Lead in Care Work (NIHR Adult Social Care Workforce Research Partnership) and Deputy Theme Lead for Implementation Science in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester. He is Associate Editor of Implementation Science Communications, sits on the funding committee of the NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme and serves as Secretary of the Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC). Prior to pursuing an academic career, Roman worked as a doctor for a gold mining company in Central Asia, combining clinical duties with a managerial role. His work has appeared in Human Relations, Organization Studies, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, Public Management Review, Implementation Science, BMJ Quality and Safety and other leading journals. Roman is a lead editor of Managing Healthcare Organisations in Challenging Policy Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan) and a co-author of the Cambridge Element on Implementation Science (Cambridge University Press).

Link zoom:

https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/97190990508?pwd=jScwGd7X1lN919HzeC1kaUD8LtvQWY.1

Meeting ID:

971 9099 0508

Passcode:

256746

Lunch at the end of the meeting: for those willing to participate in person, click here before the 7th of November.