Att göra förändring: en studie av ledarskap och organisation vid förändringsarbete

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay is to analyse how the leadership and the structure of the organization affect the process of changes within a specific department in Lunds kommun socialdepartment, from the director of social work to the co-workers at Utredningsenheten för ungdom och familj. We aim to answer the following questions; How does the structure of organisation affect the process of change? What do the co-workers and the leaders believe is the best way to engage the co-workers in the change? How does the leaders view their own leadership in the process of change? How does the co-workers view the leadership in the process of change? How does the leadership affect the process of change? To develop an organisation and to make it a functional, change is a necessity. The leaders are they who create the change but the co-workers are they who make it happen. In the process of change, leadership and the leaders capacity to create motivation for the co-workers, is therefore a matter that is decisive to its success. This is a study based on a qualitative method, where the interview is the main source of empirical material. We have interviewed three leaders on different levels in the organisation and four co-workers within Utredningsenheten för ungdom och familj. In our analysis we believe that we can see a connection between the leadership and the outcome of the process. The leaders are well recruited to their positions and we believe that this has a lot to do with the positive outcome of the process of change. The high positioned leaders have a developed conceptual capacity and a focus set on strategy and visions. The line manager is more directly involved with the co-workers and is therefore responsable for the motivationwork. Our conclusion is that becouse of the god relations between the line manager and the co-workers, there is a climate in the department that stimulates and activates change.