The systems psychodynamic leadership coaching experiences of nursing managers.
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Authors
Cilliers, Frans
Terblanche, L.
Issue Date
2010
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Article
Language
en
Keywords
Systems Psychodynamics , Leadership Coaching , Nursing Managers
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Abstract
The mostly linear and mechanistic nature of the nursing manager role is rapidly becoming more
dynamic and systemic. The change involves task and people management within a constantly
changing organisational identity, taking up multiple leadership roles, having to authorise oneself
and others in a complex matrix system, and managing conscious and unconscious psychological
boundaries within and between conflicting systems. The aim of this study was to describe the
systems psychodynamic learning experiences of nursing managers during leadership coaching. The
coaching task was to provide learning opportunities to the individual leader, towards gaining insight
into conscious and unconscious leadership dynamics in terms of anxiety, task, role, authorisation,
boundaries and identity. A qualitative research design was used. Six nursing managers attended ten
leadership coaching sessions over ten weeks. Field notes and reflective essays were analysed using
systems psychodynamic discourse analysis. The findings indicated clarity and authorisation in the
participants’ primary task and normative roles; anxiety and de-authorisation in their experiential
and phenomenal roles; anxiety in boundary management related to the misuse of power by others;
and the continuous exploration of their leadership role identity towards achieving integration.
Participants’ learning experiences were evaluated in terms of criteria for organisational learning,
after which a general hypothesis was formulated.
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Citation
Cilliers, F., & Terblanche, L. (2010). The systems psychodynamic leadership coaching experiences of nursing managers. Health SA Gesondheid, 15(1), Art #457, 9 pages. DOI:10.4102/hsag.v15i1.457.
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University of Johannesburg
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10259848