The structural, social, and cultural composite of transformations which contemporary organizations are facing indicates a new dynamic in exercising leadership and a renewal in the way of conceiving and analyzing that exercise. This paper explores the sensitiveness of that dynamic developing a conceptual framework that considers leadership and identification as complementary phenomena. Leaders' influence emerges from the significant ordering of reality of people that, simultaneously, identify themselves with and consent on that influence. Both phenomena mobilize and articulate power, cognition, and emotion resources. That conceptual framework allows us to make a more accurate and up-to-date evaluation of leadership as a dynamic process that involves: (1) political as well as cognitive, and emotional issues; and (2) ordering as well as recognizing, and consenting processes.
leadership; identification; consenting; cognition; emotion
