Engineering leadership: Grounding leadership theory in engineers’ professional identities
Engineering leadership: Grounding leadership theory in engineers’ professional identities
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工程领导力：工程师职业身份中的领导理论基础
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2015
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D. Reeve
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Cindy Rottmann;R. Sacks;D. Reeve
近年来，总部设在美国的加拿大国家工程学院敦促工程教育工作者在技术课程的基础上增加多个领域的专业技能发展。其中一个领域就是工程领导力。虽然领导力教育开始被纳入一些本科工程课程，但作为一个合法的研究领域，它还没有获得吸引力。该领域的合法性取决于工程师是否承认自己是领导职业的一员。我们的论文通过将领导力理论植根于四家加拿大工程密集型公司聘用的工程师的专业经验，促进了这一认识过程。我们对通过九个焦点小组和七次采访收集的定性数据进行的持续比较分析表明，工程师在很大程度上抵制从其他学科得出的主导领导范式，但他们确实领导着将其身份的关键方面与专业认可的影响力形式相结合的方式。我们的复合工程领导力模型对工程师、领导力理论家和工程教育家具有实践和理论意义。
In recent years the US-based National Academy of Engineering and Engineers Canada have urged engineering educators to supplement technical coursework with multiple domains of professional skills development. One such domain is that of engineering leadership. While leadership education is beginning to be infused into some undergraduate engineering programs, it has not yet gained traction as a legitimate field of study. The legitimacy of the field depends on engineers recognizing themselves as members of a leadership profession. Our paper facilitates this process of recognition by grounding leadership theory in the professional experiences of engineers employed by four Canadian engineering-intensive firms. Our constant comparative analysis of qualitative data collected through nine focus groups and seven interviews suggests that engineers are largely resistant to dominant leadership paradigms drawn from other disciplines, but that they do, in fact lead in ways that blend key aspects of their identities with professionally recognized forms of influence. Our compound model of engineering leadership has practical and theoretical implications for engineers, leadership theorists and engineering educators.