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Great Leadership Disasters: Social Construction of Leadership in the Popular Press

Øyvik, Lise-Marie; Motalleb, Natassja Alexandra
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2018
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This paper dives deeper into the phenomena of social construction of leadership,

with the aim of identifying underlying mechanisms behind the topic of great

leadership disasters and the large number of leaders who are forced to leave their

position. The construction of leadership is a result of experiences and interactions

with other people, and the concept of leadership and leadership downfalls needs to

be understood in terms of social interactions. Our focus has been on the popular

press in constructing leadership, as they have the ability to influence their readers’

perceptions. Additionally, many leadership downfalls are also extensively

covered, intensified, or even initiated, by the popular press. We have used a

combination of a qualitative and quantitative research strategy, and a multiple

case study design. Our case objects were Tore Tønne, Trond Giske and Christine

Meyer, with the aim of identifying tendencies beyond the cases.

Firstly, we examined social construction of leadership in light of the three cases.

Overall, our findings indicate that the popular press has the power to construct a

romanticized leader image during the leaders’ growth and successful years, as

well as to reconstruct their leader-image negatively during their downfall.

Secondly, we questioned how such romanticized media attention could affect the

leaders’ self-perception. Our findings indicate that it does affect the leaders

themselves, and they can become trapped in something bigger than themselves

and more inclined to perform illegal or unethical behavior. Thirdly, we discussed

our findings in light of the question of repeatability, and we found a tendency for

the pursuit of positive media coverage. Though, this has potential downsides, as

the leaders may be sold for more than they are worth, and are likely to lose control

over their own leader identity.
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Masteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Leadership and Organizational Psychology - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2018
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