Leadership, gender and generativity - a research project on open and hidden family dynamics in organizations

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that and how: open and hidden family dynamics are important for the understanding of organizational life and- to present a research project aimed at finding further evidence for this hypothesis and to discover new links between family and organization Disposition I. Links between family and organization II. Excursus: Myths, fairytales and metaphorsIII. Extended group and family dynamics IV. 29 hypothesis V. Methodological considerations VI. Perspectives.