Own your words to gain authority

• Verfasst von: Hollis, David [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Wright, Alex [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Own your words to gain authority
• Titelzusatz: managers undermine their credibility when they speak for others too frequently
• Verf.angabe: David Hollis, Alex Wright
• Ausgabe: [First edition].
• Verlagsort: [Cambridge, Massachusetts]
• Verlag: MIT Sloan Management Review
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 online resource (6 pages)
• Fussnoten: Reprint #65308
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Gestion
• Sach-SW: management
• K10plus-PPN: 1885007264
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext
• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
• Bibliothek/Idn: UW / m450721579X
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Abstract

The phenomenon of speaking on behalf of another individual or entity in an organizational setting is known as managerial ventriloquism. When managers engage in this behavior to excess, it can undermine their credibility and authority with their colleagues. The authors of this article conducted an ethnographic study on managerial ventriloquism and use the results to explain how this behavior works and suggest strategies to employ it more effectively.