TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter focused on challenges and tensions that characterize leadership in the military context. It aims to identify and analyze key paradoxes that are reflected in this unique setting, while exploring the challenges, opportunities, and advantages posed by these core paradoxes for leadership. It addresses different types of paradoxes, among them: (a) shared leadership versus hierarchical leadership, (b) flexibility and creativity versus conformity and discipline, (c) complexity and chaos versus simplicity and linearity, (d) hegemonic and prototypical leadership versus leadership of multiple identities, and last (e) distant leadership and exchange relationship versus intimate leadership and communal relationship. For each focal paradox, we uncover the dynamics, processes, management tensions, and possible subsequent outcomes. We suggest that leadership that is able to effectively attend to competing expectations and paradoxical tensions is essential in the current hybrid and complex organizational structure and unique context of the military. The chapter draws on interviews and prior research of leadership in the Israeli military, as well as other global military contexts, to gain a more nuanced understanding of the challenges of modern military leadership.
VL  - 8
SN  - 978-1-78560-942-8, 978-1-78560-941-1/1479-3571
DO  - 10.1108/S1479-357120160000008031
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-357120160000008031
AU  - Kark Ronit
AU  - Karazi-Presler Tair
AU  - Tubi Sarit
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Paradox and Challenges in Military Leadership
T2  - Leadership Lessons from Compelling Contexts
T3  - Monographs in Leadership and Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 157
EP  - 187
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -