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Grint, Keith (2022) Critical essay : wicked problems in the age of uncertainty. Human Relations, 75 (8). pp. 1518-1532. doi:10.1177/00187267211070770 ISSN 1741-282X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267211070770
Abstract
We are, apparently, living in unprecedented times, an Age of Uncertainty, when wicked problems whirl all around as we struggle to cope with Covid-19, environmental catastrophe and the right-wing populism that threatens to unravel all kinds of international agreements. In this personal reflection, 15 years after I wrote an article on wicked problems and the social construction of leadership, I take a look back, and forward, to see whether there ever was an Age of Certainty when only tame problems temporarily troubled us, or whether our understanding of the world is itself a social construction, open to dispute and thus we have always lived in uncertain times. In the process of this evaluation, I consider whether collaborative leadership, often associated with wicked problems, is as ubiquitous and effective as some proponents make out, and if it isn’t, what this says about our ability to address such problems.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Organizational change -- Management, Leadership, Economics -- History | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Human Relations | ||||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1741-282X | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 August 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 75 | ||||||
| Number: | 8 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1518-1532 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/00187267211070770 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 March 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 March 2022 |
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