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Niklas Altermark

Niklas Altermark

Associate professor

Niklas Altermark

Training leaders for the future? Leadership models for emerging and aspiring civil society leaders in Sweden and the UK

Author

  • Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska
  • Håkan Johansson
  • Niklas Altermark

Summary, in English

This article aims to understand the prevalent leadership models in seven prominent leadership development programmes targeting emerging and aspiring civil society leaders in Sweden and the United Kingdom (UK), which have two different civil society regimes. An analytical framework based on ideal-typical leadership models (transactional, transformational and collaborative) helps us distil how programmes conceptualise first the relationship between leaders and the subjects of leadership, and second, how they conceptualise core leadership qualities. Our analysis of documents and interviews with programme designers finds that programmes in both contexts predominantly conceptualise leadership in an individualistic and personalised way. Yet, Swedish programmes have a stronger focus on top-down leadership models, whereas programmes in the UK increasingly incorporate elements of the collaborative leadership model. The identified similarities and differences call for further systematic analysis of the relationship between external, structural and organisational factors and the content of leadership development programmes across civil society regimes.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science
  • School of Social Work

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

230-247

Publication/Series

Voluntary Sector Review

Volume

14

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Topic

  • Social Work
  • Political Science

Keywords

  • civil society regimes
  • emerging and aspiring leaders
  • leadership models
  • leadership qualities
  • leadership training

Status

Published

Project

  • Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2040-8064