Collective resistance to collective collaboration: a leader’s introspection
Publication date: 3 February 2020
Abstract
Learning outcomes
Ethical leadership and decision-making, engaging and managing multiple conflicting stakeholders.
Case overview/synopsis
Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), an ambitious Greenfield project of Hindalco Industries Ltd. faced the challenges of conflicting multiple stakeholders and collective resistance that did not allow UAIL to be commissioned for almost two decades. The case portrayed the journey of a new leader of UAIL in the path of transforming collective resistance to collective collaboration. In the case, the author was introspecting about how far the author could achieve the objective of collective collaborations through stakeholders’ engagements and what would be the next path of the journey.
Complexity academic level
MBA and executive development programs.
Supplementary materials
Teaching Notes are available for educators only.
Subject code
CSS 6: Human Resources.
Keywords
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer. This case is written solely for educational purposes and is not intended to represent successful or unsuccessful managerial decision-making. The authors may have disguised names; financial and other recognisable information to protect confidentiality.
Citation
Sengupta, A. and Sonawane, B. (2020), "Collective resistance to collective collaboration: a leader’s introspection", , Vol. 10 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/EEMCS-09-2019-0229
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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