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- Title: Openness and Trust in Congregational and Synodical Leadership.
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 304 KB
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This article is based primarily on insights from the behavioral sciences. Seminal research by two psychologists, initially reported in the Harvard Business Review in 1958, demonstrated that specific leadership styles may result in distinguishable effects on the behavior of followers. (1) The leadership style of a pastor or a bishop, for example, may have a discernible effect on a congregation or a group within a congregation. In this essay a number of discernible factors are identified, with particular focus on the trust level. We recognize, of course, that the gospel, and not management skills, is ultimately responsible for the reform of the church. Our attention here is not on congregations or synods where trust is already severely broken, where conflict has become bitter and deeply disruptive, or where antagonists have organized against the leadership. Such conditions may necessitate a different approach than is proposed here. However, it is important to note that conflict is always present to some degree within both congregations and synods.