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Boundary spanning

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, boundary spanning means: Building connections and coordinating work across departmental, professional or organisational boundaries.

In Turkish: sınırlar arası bağlantı kurma

How it is used

Use for active bridging between groups with different priorities or knowledge, not merely belonging to several groups.

Example sentences

  1. Boundary spanning helped the engineer translate customer concerns into questions the research team could use.

    Information is interpreted so that it can travel between groups.

  2. Her boundary spanning connected city officials, suppliers and internal operations staff.

    Coordination reaches beyond one organisation's internal reporting structure.

Common collocations

  • boundary spanning leadership
  • boundary spanning role
  • siloA department or team that works in isolation and does not share information or cooperate well with other parts of the same organisation.
  • stakeholderAny person or group that is affected by an organisation or project, or can affect it, such as employees, customers, investors, suppliers and the local community.

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