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Managing Intensity in Knowledge Work: Self-Leadership Practices among Danish Management Consultants
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Industrial Economics and Management (Dept.), Industrial Management.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7875-7826
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Industrial Economics and Management (Dept.).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7129-5040
(English)In: Journal of Management and Organization, ISSN 1833-3672, E-ISSN 1839-3527Article in journal (Refereed) Accepted
Abstract [en]

This paper examines the sources of knowledge workers’ work intensity and the self-leading strategies they apply to deal with it. The paper is based on focus group interviews with management consultants in a Danish management consultancy firm. Work intensity was identified as resulting from a combination of: (1) a results-only focus, (2) vagueness, (3) boundaryless work, and (4) low control of the quantitative load. A framework for self-leading strategies is developed based on the dimensions of reactive/proactive and self-focused/externally-focused strategies in different combinations. The results indicate that while consultants expressed a belief in internal self-discipline strategies of a more reactive nature, in fact, external and proactive strategies were the most effective in practice. In conclusion, the paper contributes to an extension of self-leadership theory to better account for current research on self-control.

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Cambridge University Press.
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Work Sciences Business Administration Applied Psychology
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Industrial Economics and Management
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-235211OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-235211DiVA, id: diva2:1249075
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Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2012-1253
Note

QC 20181002

Available from: 2018-09-18 Created: 2018-09-18 Last updated: 2022-06-26Bibliographically approved

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