Att leda ideella - en studie på gruppledare i Stockholms län

Sammanfattning: Over the past thirty years the political parties in Sweden have lost five out of six members. In order to retain existing members leadership in these organizations has become increasingly important. The aim of this paper is to identify what group leaders for party groups within the municipal council believe are the driving forces that underlie the councillors' voluntary commitment, identify the group leaders' leadership style and identify whether there exist a relationship between these driving forces and the leadership style. The approach applied is qualitative consisting of twelve interviews with twelve group leaders from six different municipalities in Stockholm county. The theoretical framework of this paper includes the Volunteer Functions Inventory and the Full Range Leadership Theory. Applying these theories to the collected data the paper derives some main conclusions regarding group leader's beliefs about the driving forces behind the councillors' voluntary commitment, the leadership styles practiced by the group leaders and the relationship between the two. The relationships are summarized into four ideal type of leader profiles; the Ideological Educator, the Status Supplier, the Careerist and the Buddy.