The coaching space: A production of power relationships in organizational settings
By: Louis, Dima
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Contributor(s): Diochon, Pauline Fatien
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BookPublisher: 2018Description: p.710-731.Subject(s): Power| Item type | Current location | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | 25(6), Nov, 2018: p.710-731. | Available | AR119597 |
Given the prevalence of instrumental and positivistic accounts on coaching, our article aims to contribute to a critical theory of coaching by articulating two under-researched topics in the field: power and space. We do so by building on the Lefebvrian political approach to space; more specifically, we show that depending on the coach’s experience of the coaching space, three types of power relationships are produced within the coach–coachee–organization triad: independent, mediated, and parallel. Accordingly, the coaching space appears to be either a generator, supporter, or analyzer of power. Overall, by approaching coaching as a political space, we call for increased awareness of the conditions that facilitate the experience of the coaching space as empowering rather than limiting and controlling. - Reproduced.


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