The coaching space: A production of power relationships in organizational settings

Dima Louis () and Pauline Fatien Diochon ()
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Dima Louis: EESC-GEM - Grenoble Ecole de Management
Pauline Fatien Diochon: SKEMA Business School (France, Lille) - SKEMA BS

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Abstract: Given the prevalence of instrumental and positivistic accounts on coaching, our article aims to contribute to a critical theory of coaching by articulating two under-researched topics in the field: power and space. We do so by building on the Lefebvrian political approach to space; more specifically, we show that depending on the coach's experience of the coaching space, three types of power relationships are produced within the coach–coachee–organization triad: independent, mediated, and parallel. Accordingly, the coaching space appears to be either a generator, supporter, or analyzer of power. Overall, by approaching coaching as a political space, we call for increased awareness of the conditions that facilitate the experience of the coaching space as empowering rather than limiting and controlling.

Keywords: Coaching space; Lefebvre; triangular relationships; power relationships (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-11-01
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Published in Organization, 2018, 25 (6), pp.710 - 731. ⟨10.1177/1350508418779653⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/1350508418779653

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