Colleagues,
"The label" politics in organizations has way too much extra baggage for a researchable field of management. Instead, I see a field based on the LMX process of team building for emergent leadership (Graen chapter in Oxford Leadership Handbook, 2012 (attached). The main difference is that LMX research as focused on understanding the underlying development process of citizen behavior and has focused on understanding the gross roots network outcomes that may PO those in charge. Clearly, LMX teams may emerge to produce both organizational changes that a CEO likes or dislikes, but power for social activism cannot be totally controlled by CEOs. This is what scares CEOs. They see it as their rival and judge. Baby-boomers in management have seldom experienced LMX leadership. Let's not lose the new millennium generation. That's the movement I propose for our 40th anniversary of Leadership Motivated Excellence (LMX) research. What do you think?
Human's has always been much more than controlled assets of management. Lead, follow or get out of the way of citizen engagement in organizations.
George Graenjag