The role of ambidextrous leadership in developing team-level ambidexterity: Exploring the supporting roles of reflective conversations and ambidextrous HRM

IF 1.2 Q4 MANAGEMENT

Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/23322373.2022.2155122

Obinna Alo

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study highlights how constructs of importance to management in Africa – ambidextrous leadership and team learning – can extend or modify our existing management theories. Adopting an exploratory design with an interpretive philosophy, this study explores how supermarket store managers engage their subordinates in team learning sessions to enable their collective ambidexterity, facilitated by the presence of reflective conversations (RC) and ambidextrous human resource management (HRM) policies and practices. Based on our raw data, we develop a process-based model that shows how ambidextrous leadership behaviors can help develop team-level ambidexterity, including the supporting roles of RC and ambidextrous HRM practices in the process. This model thus seeks to motivate theoretically future ambidexterity research in Africa, as the theoretical ideas and themes in this study can be replicated and be broadly applied to future ambidexterity research on the continent. This model will, therefore, contribute to the theoretical development of African management literature and, accordingly, adds significant value to the mainstream ambidexterity literature.

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双灵巧型领导在发展团队双灵巧性中的作用:探讨反思性对话和双灵巧型人力资源管理的支持作用

摘要本研究强调了对非洲管理具有重要意义的结构——双手灵巧的领导力和团队学习——如何扩展或修改我们现有的管理理论。本研究采用了一种具有解释哲学的探索性设计，探讨了超市商店经理如何通过反思性对话（RC）和双手灵巧的人力资源管理（HRM）政策和实践，让下属参与团队学习，以实现他们的集体双手灵巧。基于我们的原始数据，我们开发了一个基于过程的模型，该模型显示了双手灵巧的领导行为如何帮助发展团队层面的双手灵巧，包括RC和双手灵巧的人力资源管理实践在过程中的支持作用。因此，该模型试图从理论上激励非洲未来的双元性研究，因为本研究中的理论思想和主题可以复制并广泛应用于非洲大陆未来的双元性研究。因此，该模型将有助于非洲管理文献的理论发展，并因此为主流的双元性文献增加重要价值。

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Africa Journal of Management Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

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2.80

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15.40%

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期刊介绍： The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid reversal, and deal effectively with emerging challenges and opportunities, Africa needs better management scholarship, education and practice. The purpose of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) is to advance management theory, research, education, practice and service in Africa by promoting the production and dissemination of high quality and relevant manuscripts. AJOM is committed to publishing original, rigorous, scholarly empirical and theoretical research papers, which demonstrate clear understanding of the management literature and draw on Africa’s local indigenous knowledge, wisdom and current realities. As the first scholarly journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), AJOM gives voice to all those who are committed to advancing management scholarship, education and practice in or about Africa, for the benefit of all of Africa. AJOM welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. We are particularly interested in manuscripts which address Africa’s most important development needs, challenges and opportunities as well as the big management questions of the day. We are interested in research papers which address issues of ethical conduct in different African settings.