Previous research in the area of Leadership and stress has shown that the Leader plays an important role but in what way is still an issue to explore. A qualitative approach was used in this study to develop an increased understanding of the Leader's experience of stress using four themes; Leadership, stress, control and organizational factors. A total of 12 semi-structured and un-structured interviews were carried out with 6 Leaders, three females and three males. The data was transcribed and thematic as well as narrative analysis was conducted.The results indicates that Leadership stress is caused by a lack of control and that factors intrinsic to the role as a Leader both facilitates and complicates the Leaders situation when facing stress..

This thesis investigates the dynamics of the relationship between a Leader and the followers within a chosen organization. The research on Leadership has generally been focused on the Leader, and consequently treating the followers like passive subordinates. We pursue a more multidimensional view of the subject, meaning that Leadership descends from an interaction between Leaders and followers, which makes it relevant to study the dynamics of the relationship from both perspectives. We chose to do a qualitative case study on a middle- and preschool which has won a price for being an ideal place to work at. This price peaked our interest to investigate why the relationships are highly functional in this particular organization.

AbstractThe aim of the present study was to investigate what kind of factors contributed to motivate a group of nurses at a nursing home in western Sweden to to perform their work. Furthermore, the authors wanted to investigate whether the staff nurses felt that the Leader helped to increase or reduce the perceived motivation to perform such work, and the way in which staff nurses perceived their relationship to the Leader. The study is based on Herzberg's (1959) two-factor theory, Hackman and Oldham's (1980) work designs theory and Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, and those theories are the basis of the study's structure. The study was of a qualitative property, interviews were conducted with seven nurses and was structured, the questions concerned their subjective experience of motivating factors in their everyday work. The results of this study demonstrated that respondents experienced confirmation, the meaningfulness of the work, work colleagues, beneficiaries of care and residents' families as contributing factors to motivate them in their daily work.

The purpose of this thesis is to describe how an entrepreneur and Leader, transmits a vision through communication. Furthermore what kind of feedback the Leader finds that he/she acquire. We want to study how entrepreneurship and Leadership appears at a private preschool and how the entrepreneur and Leader use it to communicate his/her vision.This thesis is based on qualitative method using one in-depth interview with CEO at Helianthus AB, documents and one observation at a parental meeting. The theories of which this study is based on consist of entrepreneurship, transformational and transactional Leadership, vision and communication. The theories used in this thesis regard entrepreneurship, transformational and transactional Leadership, vision and communication.Our study strengthened the assumption that our respondent is an entrepreneur and Leader according to chosen theories.

In today?s tough business environment the need for good and efficient Leaders are becoming more and more important. The businesses are in constant change, the world is more unpredictable and the competences of the employees are much greater today, which also calls for a new type of Leader, a Leader who not only is authoritarian, but also possesses soft skills. In this environment where there is this greater focus on Leaders, Leadership developments have emerged and increased in number over the last ten to twenty years. They try to develop Leaders in all domains of their life, both professional and personal and the model we work with in this paper is Total Leadership, this model implies that you try to accomplish being a better Leader throughout your whole life as a Leader, to be whole, genuine and innovative, no matter career or position in life.

Title: A study about conditions for Leadership in knowledge-intensive firms.Authors: Cecilia Ekström and Niklas SandbergKeywords: Leadership, knowledge-intensive firm, hierarchies, followers.Background: Leadership is becoming one of our greatest social myths and is considered a total solution for many problems that occur in an organization. The view of Leadership is usually from a top-down perspective, which contributes to an often underestimated view of the follower. Just as it is important to understand the Leader's view of Leadership, it is important to understand how employees view the structure from which the Leader derives its legitimacy. The existing conditions in knowledge-intensive firms, such as autonomy, place special demands on the formal Leadership.Purpose: The purpose of this study takes an employee perspective, to understand what the conditions are for formal Leadership in knowledge-intensive firms.Method: A qualitative research method was used and empirical material was collected through interviews with employees in knowledge-intensive firms. The empirical material was analyzed by the respondents? mental images which were set against the theoretical framework of the thesis.Conclusions: The conditions for formal Leadership in knowledge-intensive firms make it advantageous to have a Leader with a withdrawn role.

The aim of the study was to a) examine what Leader behaviors individual and team athletes prefer and b) examine what Leader behaviors men and women prefer. A questionnaire (The Leadership Scale for Sports) was distributed to 168 individuals, from which 130 were included in the study. The data was analyzed in SPSS, in which a three-way and a two-way variance analysis were performed. The results showed that individual athletes preferred the behavior dimensions ?Training and instruction?, ?Positive feedback? and ?Democratic behavior? to a higher degree than did team athletes.

The effects of social media usage in a professional context, specifically the effects on social media usage in relation to Leadership have been studied in order to determine weather or not usage can be productive for Leadership in general. The study concludes that there are several benefits as well as drawbacks to Leadership in using social media, but has yet to conclude weather productive or not. This study gives an overview of a relatively unexplored subject.Leadership in terms of Leader, communication and group dynamics have been defined and explained in accordance with existing literature. A  brief review of computer and Internet history attempts to explain the formation and evolution of social media. Risks in terms of risks related to Leadership and risks related to IT-security are taken into consideration and have been briefly explained.

The effects of social media usage in a professional context, specifically the effects on social media usage in relation to Leadership have been studied in order to determine weather or not usage can be productive for Leadership in general. The study concludes that there are several benefits as well as drawbacks to Leadership in using social media, but has yet to conclude weather productive or not. This study gives an overview of a relatively unexplored subject.Leadership in terms of Leader, communication and group dynamics have been defined and explained in accordance with existing literature. A  brief review of computer and Internet history attempts to explain the formation and evolution of social media. Risks in terms of risks related to Leadership and risks related to IT-security are taken into consideration and have been briefly explained.

It has become popular for political scientists to discuss the transformation from government to governance and the networks? greater influence on public policymaking. However, this debate lacks methodological, empirical and theoretical research about the relationship between governance networks and representative democracy. The main objective of this essay is to understand the relationship between governance networks and representative democracy through a case study of the governance network Leader Linné. The theoretical framework includes four analysis models about the relationship between governance networks and representative democracy that are analysed by five factors connected to representative democracy.

Title: A study about conditions for Leadership in knowledge-intensive firms.Authors: Cecilia Ekström and Niklas SandbergKeywords: Leadership, knowledge-intensive firm, hierarchies, followers.Background: Leadership is becoming one of our greatest social myths and is considered a total solution for many problems that occur in an organization. The view of Leadership is usually from a top-down perspective, which contributes to an often underestimated view of the follower. Just as it is important to understand the Leader's view of Leadership, it is important to understand how employees view the structure from which the Leader derives its legitimacy. The existing conditions in knowledge-intensive firms, such as autonomy, place special demands on the formal Leadership.Purpose: The purpose of this study takes an employee perspective, to understand what the conditions are for formal Leadership in knowledge-intensive firms.Method: A qualitative research method was used and empirical material was collected through interviews with employees in knowledge-intensive firms. The empirical material was analyzed by the respondents? mental images which were set against the theoretical framework of the thesis.Conclusions: The conditions for formal Leadership in knowledge-intensive firms make it advantageous to have a Leader with a withdrawn role.

The transformational Leadership and the Swedish Armed Forces? basic outlook on pedagogy are two factors that affect a Swedish military officer. The author has identified a need of understanding the process of personal development. An understanding that couldn?t be supplied by the transformational Leadership but that was found in the Swedish Armed Forces? basic outlook on pedagogy.

The work place is becoming more flexible and an increasing number of employees report to a Leader in another location or country. The borders between different countries, work places and cultures are diminished to a greater extent than before. Working from a distance means new opportunities in terms of competence development, flexibility in working hours, tasks and resources, a larger platform for various career opportunities and an expanded network. The purpose with this study is to examine how Leaders can create a successful virtual team and motivate remotely. The qualitative study is carried out through interviews with Leaders and employees within Nielsen Nordic.

This is a qualitative study designed to investigate how professional support group Leaders talk about their role as supervisor of support groups for children and adolescents with problematic home situations. We also examine how these supervisors talk about the method they use and how they talk about the individual child. We have chosen critical discourse analysis to help us explore if there are different ways to talk about these territories. Our questions are:How does the support group Leader talk about his role?How does the support group Leader talk about the method?How does the support group Leader talk about the individual child?The theories we have chosen to use in the analysis of our material is Aaron Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence and social constructivism.

This essay studies the practice of both the political and the administrative Leadership at the municipal level from the point of view of the politicians and the chief officers Leadership role, and the relationship between politicians and administrators. I discuss and analyse how politicians and senior officials practice Leadership, differences or similarities and if their practice of Leadership raises any challenges in a democratic framework at the municipal level. I conducted interviews with the municipal political Leader and the head of administration at the municipal level in Karlshamn and Sölvesborg. In the analysis I discuss communication as a Leadership process which highlights ?enabling elements? and potentials of the Leadership process.