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The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Leadership—Case of Lebanese Public Sector

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ICT for an Inclusive World

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The management is both a product and a process of and in its environment. The managerial thought is evolving and developing to adapt itself with new challenges both cultural and technological to meet different needs of the company. Today, the leader is characterized by his capacity to be in interaction with his environment to serve it better. Through a qualitative study and based on seven interviews conducted with superior person in charge of the Lebanese Public Sector, this article searches to analyze how the role of the leaders of public sector evolves in view of technological transformations resulting from the adoption and the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in their institutions. To face these new technological challenges, the person in charge of the public sector must exceed his role of a traditional manager to the role of a transformational leader. Hence the necessity of an adaptation, and a mutation in the organizational structure to give an intermediary role to the computer scientists specialist of data and information in the public institutions.

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  1. Faculty of Business and Management, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

    Dina Sidani & Bissane Harb

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    Youcef Baghdadi

  2. Business Department, University Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France

    Antoine Harfouche

  3. Department of Economics and Business Science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Marta Musso

Appendices

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Annex: Recapitulative Table of the Evolution of the Concept of Leadership in Function of the School of Thought

Classic school

Frederic Taylor

Scientific organization of work

Henri Fayol

Administrative function of the manager

School of human relations

Elton Mayo

Cohesion and solidarity of group

Mary Parker Follet

Good relationship in the workplace

Chester Barnard

Notion of the organizational equilibrium through the social interactions

Leadership in the managerial thought

Chris Argyris

 

Douglas Mac Gregor

Theory X and Theory Y

Robert Blake and Jane Mouton

Model of behaviorist leadership, in function of the organizational context

William Ouchi

Consensual management

Leadership

Abraham Zaleznick

Creativity and intuition of leader

John Kotter

Leaders: dynamic changes

Robert Terry

Institutional leader

Henry Mintzberg

Communityship

Peter Drucker

Success of leadership is an effective management

James Burns

Transactional leadership and transformational leadership

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Sidani, D., Harb, B. (2020). The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Leadership—Case of Lebanese Public Sector. In: Baghdadi, Y., Harfouche, A., Musso, M. (eds) ICT for an Inclusive World. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34269-2_21

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