ABSTRACT

Our paper offers an overview of French organizational leadership by looking at its power sources (inputs), consequences (outcomes), and a triad model. We found that having connections with powerful entities such as top management and the Grandes écoles is the main source of French leadership as these connections confer strong legitimacy, which is an important notion in the French leadership process. Hierarchical, honour-based, and ends-over-means styles of leadership are proposed as a triad model for French leadership. While French leadership focuses heavily on results as outcomes, French management can be either participative or closed, depending on the role of the leader. Enlightenment ideology since the time of the French Revolution may explain the overall characteristics of French leadership from a historical and cultural context. The overview of French leadership in our paper is developed from 31 in-depth interviews with mid- to high-level (ex-) managers who shared their perspectives and experience both as leaders and as followers.

摘要

我们的论文通过查看其权力来源（输入）、后果（结果）和三元模型来概述法国的组织领导。我们发现，与高层管理人员和Grandes écoles等强大实体建立联系是法国领导的主要来源，因为这些联系赋予了强大的合法性，这是法国领导过程中的一个重要概念。等级制、以荣誉为基础和目的大于手段的领导风格被提出作为法国领导的三元模型。虽然法国领导层非常注重结果，但法国管理层可以是参与式的，也可以是封闭式的，这取决于领导者的角色。法国大革命以来的启蒙思想可以从历史和文化背景下解释法国领导的整体特征。我们论文中对法国领导力的概述是根据对中高层（前）经理的 31 次深度访谈得出的，他们分享了他们作为领导者和追随者的观点和经验。