摘要:This study investigates organizational leaders’ discourses and how they are embedded in organizational and national structures and relate to leadership and communication in two Swedish organizations. The findings, based on 27 interviews with leaders at various levels in two Swedish industries, indicate that leaders’ discourses are affected differently by national and organizational cultural structures and are related to the circumstances affecting the construction of communicative leadership in these organizations. In a strong established organizational culture national context have less influence because members are loyal to the communication and leadership views of the organization in question. Discourses of communicative leadership and Swedish leadership are relevant to the organization that works to its leaders became more communicative. However, disregard of the predominance of national or organisational leadership and communication views, leaders remain viewing themselves as main actors of leadership. This study also seeks to extend the knowledge of the concept of communicative leadership contributing to the understanding of its definition in relation to characteristics of national and organizational cultures.
关键词:Organizational communication;Communication; Leadership; Communicative leadership; Discourse; National culture; organizational culture