Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter X
Framing Leadership
Issues for System
Developers
Gayla Jo Slauson
Mesa State College, USA
Chad Grabow
Mesa State College, USA
ABSTRACT
This chapter combines the concepts of leadership through “framing,” as discussed in topics
such as “The Art of Framing,” published in 1996 and written by Gail Fairhurst and Robert
Sarr, with the development of information systems. It provides a brief explanation of the
frame theory of leadership and discusses how this theory relates to information systems. The
authors propose that students in management information systems degree programs need
to be made aware of the leadership potential of the information systems through which
members of organizations communicate. Effective use of information systems to lead people
in contemporary organizations is so far lacking in curricula, and the authors hope that this
chapter may begin to remedy this situation.
