MERJA Luostarinen

I'm researching shared social identity leadership and the fulfilment of the three basic psychological needs across hierarchical and self-managing workplaces, where authority has been formally, systematically and radically de-centralised. I'm comparing how these theoretical approaches are operated between the two organisational forms, and aim to find most effective means workplaces can take to support both identitification and self-determination at work.

Key words: Social Identity Leadership, Self-determination, Shared Leadership, Self-managing Organisations, Organisational psychology