Coaching as second-order observations: Learning from site managers in the construction industry

Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-290

  Styhre, Alexander ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coaching; Construction industry; Managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649087485     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437730810861326     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Argyris, C. and Schön, D.A. (1978), Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
2. Arnaud, G. (2003), "A coach or a couch? A Lacanian perspective on executive coaching and consulting", Human Relations, Vol. 56 No. 9, pp. 1131-54.
3. Bakken, T. and Hernes, T. (Eds) (2003), Autopoetic Organization Theory: Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Perspective, Oslo: Abstract; Malmö: Liber; Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen.
4. Barge, J.K. and Oliver, C. (2003), "Working with appreciation in managerial practice", Academy of Management Review, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 124-42.
5. Berglas, S. (2002), "Dangers of executive coaching", Harvard Business Review, June, pp. 86-92.
6. Bresnen, M., Goussevskaia, A. and Swan, J. (2004), "Embedding new management knowledge in project-based organizations", Organization Studies, Vol. 25 No. 9, pp. 1535-55.
7. Butler, A.G. (1973), "Project management: A study in organizational conflict", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 84-101.
8. Clegg, S. and Courpasson, D. (2004), "Political hybrids: Tocquevillean views of project organizations", Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 41 No. 4, pp. 525-47.
9. Czarniawska, B. (2004), Narratives in Social Science Research, Sage, Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi.
10. Czarniawska, B. (2005), "On Gorgon sisters: Organizational action in the face of paradox", in Seidl, D. and Becker, K.H. (Eds), Niklas Luhmann and Organisation Studies, Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen, pp. 127-42.
11. Davidson, M.J. and Sutherland, V.J. (2002), "Stress and construction site managers: Issues for Europe 1992", Employee Relations, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp. 25-38.
12. Djerbarni, R. (1996), "The impact of stress in site management effectiveness", Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 14, pp. 281-93.
13. Fraser, C. (2000), "The influence of personal characteristics on effectiveness of construction site managers", Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 18, pp. 29-36.
14. Gray, D.E. (2006), "Executive coaching: Towards a dynamic alliance of psychotherapy and transformative learning processes", Management Learning, Vol. 37 No. 4, pp. 475-97.
15. Habermas, J. (1984), The Theory of Communicative Action: Vol 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, Heineman, London.
16. Hackman, R.J. and Wageman, R. (2005), "A theory of team coaching", Academy of Management Review, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 269-87.
17. Hall, D.T., Otazo, K.L. and Hollenbeck, G.P. (1999), "What really happens in executive coaching", Organization Dynamics, pp. 39-53.
18. Hernes, T. and Bakken, T. (2004), "Implications of self-reference: Niklas Luhmann's autopoesis and organization theory", Organization Studies, Vol. 24 No. 9, pp. 1511-35.
19. Hobday, M. (2000), "The project-based organisation: An ideal for managing complex products and systems?", Research Policy, Vol. 29, pp. 871-93.
20. Hodgson, D. (2002), "Disciplining the professional: The case of project management", Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 39 No. 6, pp. 803-21.
21. Hodgson, D.E. (2004), "Project work: The legacy of bureaucratic control in the post-bureaucratic organization", Organization, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 81-100.
22. Holstein, J.A. and Gubrium, J.F. (Eds) (2003), Inside Interviewing. New Lenses, New Concerns, Thousand Oaks, London and Sage, New Delhi.
23. Kampa-Kokesch, S. and Anderson, M.Z. (2001), "Executive coaching: A comprehensive review of the literature", Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Vol. 53 No. 4, pp. 205-28.
24. Levinson, H. (1996), "Executive coaching", Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Vol. 48 No. 2, pp. 115-23.
25. Luhmann, N. (1979), Trust and Power, Wiley, New York, NY.
26. Luhmann, N. (1982), The Differentiation of Society, Columbia University Press, New York, NY.
27. Luhmann, N. (1990), Essays on Self-reference, Columbia University Press, New York, NY.
28. Luhmann, N. (2000a), Art as a Social System, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA (transl. by Eva M. Knodt).
29. Luhmann, N. (2000b), The Reality of the Mass Media, Polity Press, Cambridge, MA.
30. Luhmann, N. (2002), Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
31. Lundin, R.A. and Söderholm, A. (1995), "A theory of the temporary organization", Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 437-55.
32. Midler, C. (1995), "'Projectification' of the firm: The Renault case", Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 363-75.
33. Maturana, H.R. and Varela, F.J. (1980), Autopoesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, D. Riedle Publishing, Dordrecht, Boston, MA and London.
34. Maturana, H.R. and Varela, F.J. (1992), The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, Shambala, Boston, MA and London.
35. Mustapha, F.H. and Naoum, A. (1998), "Factors influencing the effectiveness of construction site managers", International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 1-8.
36. Nassehi, A. (2005), "Organizations as design machines: Niklas Luhmann's theory of organized social systems", in Jones, C. and Munro, R. (Eds), Contemporary Organization Theory, Blackwell, Oxford and Malden, MA, pp. 178-91.
37. O'Shaughnessy, S. (2001), "Executive coaching: The route to business stardom", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 33 No. 6, pp. 194-7.
38. Palmer, B. (2003), "Maximizing value from executive coaching", Strategic HR Review, Vol. 2 No. 6, pp. 26-9.
39. Patriotta, G. (2003), "Sensemaking on the shop floor: Narratives of knowledge in organizations", Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 40 No. 2, pp. 349-75.
40. Peterson, D.B. (1996), "Executive coaching at work: The art of one-on-one change", Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Vol. 48 No. 2, pp. 78-86.
41. Räisänen, C. and Linde, A. (2004), "Technologizing discourse to standardize projects in multi-project organizations: hegemony by consensus", Organization, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 101-21.
42. Scarbrough, H., Bresnen, M., Edelman, L.F., Laurent, S., Newell, S. and Swan, J. (2004), "The process of project-based learning", An explorative study, Management Learning, Vol. 35 No. 4, pp. 491-506.
43. Sield, D. (2005), "The basic concepts of Luhmann's theory of social systems", in Seidl, D. and Becker, K.H. (Eds), Niklas Luhmann and Organisation Studies, Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen, pp. 21-53.
44. Söderlund, J. (2004), "Building theories of project management: Past research, questions for the future", International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 22, pp. 183-91.
45. Styhre, A. (2006), "The bureaucratization of the project manager function: The case of construction industry", International Journal Project Management, Vol. 24, pp. 271-6.
46. Styhre, A. and Josephson, P.-E. (2006), "Revisiting site manager work: Stuck in the middle?", Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 24, pp. 521-8.
47. Sundgren, M. and Styhre, A. (2006), "Leadership as de-paradoxification: Leading new drug development work at three pharmaceutical companies", Leadership, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 31-52.
48. Wasylyshyn, K.M. (2003), "Executive coaching: An outcome study", Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Vol. 55 No. 2, pp. 94-106.
49. White, H. (1987), The Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD and London.
50. Wilemon, D.L. and Cicero, J.P. (1970), "The project manager: anomalies and ambiguities", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 13, pp. 269-82.