Leadership and Information Processing

Leadership and Information Processing

Author: Robert G. Lord

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-26

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1134858523

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Using information processing and leadership perception processes the authors provide a much needed analysis of executive leadership, offering a theoretical and empirical basis for analysing this crucial element of organizational behaviour.


How Audiences Decide

How Audiences Decide

Author: Richard O. Young

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1136911898

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How Audiences Decide: A Cognitive Approach to Business Communication is a comprehensive introduction to persuasive communication in the context of business. It summarizes relevant theories and findings from the fields of cognitive science, social cognition, leadership, team cognition, psycholinguistics, and behavioral economics. By illuminating the thought processes of many different audiences, from consumers to Wall Street analysts to CEOs, it helps communicators better understand why audiences make the decisions they make and how to influence them. The book covers a broad range of communication techniques—including those concerning persuasive speaking and writing, interviews and group meetings, content and style, typography and nonverbal behaviors, charts and images, rational arguments and emotional appeals—and examines the empirical evidence supporting each of them.


Persuasive Communication

Persuasive Communication

Author: Richard O. Young

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 779

ISBN-13: 131741716X

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This updated and expanded edition of Persuasive Communication offers a comprehensive introduction to persuasion and real-world decision making. Drawing on empirical research from social psychology, neuroscience, business communication research, cognitive science, and behavioral economics, Young reveals the thought processes of many different audiences—from investors to CEOs—to help students better understand why audiences make the decisions they make and how to influence them. The book covers a broad range of communication techniques, richly illustrated with compelling examples, including resumes, speeches, and slide presentations, to help students recognize persuasive methods that do, and do not, work. A detailed analysis of the emotions and biases that go into decision making arms students with perceptive insights into human behavior and helps them apply this understanding with various decision-making aids. Students will learn how to impact potential employers, clients, and other audiences essential to their success. This book will prove fascinating to many, and especially useful for students of persuasion, rhetoric, and business communication.


Advances in Global Leadership

Advances in Global Leadership

Author: William Mobley

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2001-06-22

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1849500827

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As organizations and leadership become more global, there are pressing needs for better developed conceptual models and definitions of what is meant by global leadership. Further, there is a need to integrate models and empirical evidence from multiple cultures and from non-Western authors. This series will be of value to: academics doing research and teaching on subjects related to leadership, international business, organizational behavior, and international management; practitioners and consultants who are managing global leadership development processes; and to individuals engaged in global leadership.


A Cognitive Approach to Performance Appraisal

A Cognitive Approach to Performance Appraisal

Author: Angelo DeNisi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1134831293

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Angelo DeNisi reports on the results of ten years of research into cognitive processes, concentrating on how information is acquired, whether it is subject to bias and how this influences performance appraisal.


The Nature of Leadership

The Nature of Leadership

Author: John Antonakis

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1506395015

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With contributions by leading scholars in the field, The Nature of Leadership, Third Edition begins with an overview of the major schools of leadership, examining individual differences, followership, relational leadership, and team leadership. The text then delves into important and timely topics such as social cognition, gender, power, identity, culture, and entrepreneurial leadership. Editors John Antonakis and David Day conclude by exploring philosophical and methodological issues in leadership, including ethics and corporate social responsibility. The fully updated new edition is more accessible and student friendly than ever with new vignettes, examples, statistics, and recommended case studies and videos.


The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations

The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations

Author: David V. Day

Publisher: Oxford Library of Psychology

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 913

ISBN-13: 0199755612

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This title brings together a collection of comprehensive, state-of-the-science reviews and perspectives on the most pressing historical and contemporary leadership issues - with a particular focus on theory and research - and looks to the future of the field.


Leadership Now

Leadership Now

Author: Israel Katz

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-10-05

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1787432009

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Leadership Now: Reflections on the Legacy of Boas Shamir incorporates some of Boas Shamir’s most classic and significant works, and includes contributions from a group that represent the most influential leaders in the field, up and coming scholars, as well as students of Boas Shamir.


The Oxford Handbook of Leadership

The Oxford Handbook of Leadership

Author: Michael G. Rumsey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 0195398793

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This book both acknowledges the complexity emerging from the three main components of leadership--the leader, the led, and the environment--while providing a sound, foundational structure in which the complexity of this area of study can be better understood.