Organizational Leadership
Organizational Leadership

Author: John Bratton

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2020-02-29

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 1529715466

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Organizational Leadership provides an accessible, critical and engaging analysis of what constitutes ‘leadership’ today. Demonstrating leadership as an interconnected process between leaders, followers and context, the book ensures a rounded understanding of theory and practice to support students throughout their course and future career. Part 1: Contextualising Leadership examines the internal and external forces influencing leadership, addressing issues such as ethics, power, culture and innovation. Part 2: Leadership Theories reviews and analyses traditional and contemporary theories of leadership. Part 3: Managing People and Leadership builds on the idea of leadership as a human process and considers how complementary aspects of HRM can inform leadership practice and its outcomes on employees and organizational performance. Part 4: Contemporary Leadership considers topical issues including the shift of leadership studies towards followership, gender and leadership and pro-environmental leadership. Bringing complex theories and concepts to life through a range of case studies and examples, the book is further supported by a series of fascinating expert video conversations with those in leadership roles. From small social businesses to major multi-nationals, from the NHS to the frontline military teams, the videos offer a unique insight into the diverse reality of leadership in practice today.

Organizational Leadership
Organizational Leadership

Author: Jack Burns

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-05-16

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0830896171

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This comprehensive text for Christians on organizational leadership provides theological foundations while tracing the historic roots of management, organization and leadership theories. All of this leads to five essential challenges and practices--communication, negotiation, decision-making, financial stewardship and personal development.

The Nature of Organizational Leadership
The Nature of Organizational Leadership

Author: Stephen J. Zaccaro

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2002-02-28

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 9780787959937

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The quality of an organization's top leaders is a critical influence on its overall effectiveness and continuing adaptability. Yet, little current research examines leadership within the context of organizational structure, such as how leaders influence organizational performance in those key moments when an executive's action is critical to driving the organization forward. This book represents a significant contribution to the literature of leadership, combining a contextual approach to organizational leadership with an in-depth treatment of the cognitive, social, and affective dynamics underlying that leadership. The Nature of Organizational Leadership, using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from the work of scholars in both management and psychology, provides a much-need organizational perspective on the problems to confronted by top executive leaders and the requisite behaviors, attributes, and outcomes necessary to lead organizations effectively.

The Science of Leadership
The Science of Leadership

Author: Julian Barling PhD

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0199393583

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In The Science of Leadership, Julian Barling takes an evidenced-based approach, relying primarily on the knowledge generated from research on organizational leadership conducted around the world and personal reflections based on two decades of involvement in leadership research and leadership development with executives. While leadership has been studied within all the major social sciences, Barling mainly focuses on findings from psychological research. The first part of the book explains the nature of organizational leadership, responds to the question of whether leaders "matter," and explains how leadership works. A longstanding issue is whether leadership can be taught. Barling explores the debate over whether leadership is "born or made" as well as the effectiveness of leadership development interventions in organizations. He gives consideration to what can be learned from leadership in other contexts such as sports, the political arena, and schools, and devotes individual chapters to topics that include gender and leadership, destructive leadership, and followership.

Introduction to Educational Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Introduction to Educational Leadership & Organizational Behavior

Author: Patti Chance

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1317923189

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Like the bestselling first edition, this introductory textbook succinctly presents concepts and theories of educational leadership and organizational behavior and immediately applies them to problems of practice. The second edition includes a new chapter on organizational culture, expanded overage of organizational structure, systems, and leadership, and additional case studies and scenarios representing real problems of practice.

Leadership and Organizational Climate
Leadership and Organizational Climate

Author: Robert A. Stringer

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Leadership and Organizational Climate is a book that shows how leaders impact organizational performance by manipulating the environmental determinants of motivation. Consciously or unconsciously, effective leaders arouse and direct the motivational energy that compels people to action. This book explains how specific leadership practices shape the dimensions of organizational climate and how different climates influence people's energies and efforts. Stringer discusses both the direct and indirect aspects of leadership: how the "memory" or "shadow" of a leader creates a certain atmosphere or climate within an organization, and how this climate impacts motivation. Leadership is too often explained in terms of the leader's direct face-to-face impact on people. This book describes and validates the less dramatic but more lasting impact that certain leadership practices have on people's thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Filled with examples showing how leaders can manage performance by using organizational climate, this book attempts to be a "cloud chamber" for the practice of leadership--it traces the normally unseen, but very real, motivational influences that leaders exert when they move through an organization. For individuals looking for tools they can immediately use to improve their leadership effectiveness and organizational performance.

Biblical Organizational Leadership
Biblical Organizational Leadership

Author: Joshua D. Henson

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 3030699293

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This edited work uses the life and biblical teachings of Jesus to examine modern leadership theory. With the Gospel of John as its focal point, it depicts leadership traits such as compassion, empathy, humility, and transparency as essential to the ministry of Jesus. The authors explore concepts related to communication, conflict resolution, mentorship, authentic leadership, servant leadership, transformational leadership, and succession planning to show the applicability of principles espoused in biblical teachings to modern organizations. This book will make a valuable addition to the leadership literature by using the life of Jesus as a case study.

When Leadership Fails
When Leadership Fails

Author: Lonnie R. Morris, Jr.

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1800437676

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When Leadership Fails is a critical examination of the worst workplace experiences for the purpose of individual, group and organizational learning. Professionals from various industries unpack personal encounters associated with a range of toxic leadership behaviors, using theory, these examples are turned into critical lessons.

Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change
Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change

Author: Louis Carter

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-07-05

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 1118429494

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In this important book, successful organizations—including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair—share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations serve as models for leadership development and organizational change because they Commit to organizational objectives and culture Transform behaviors, cultures, and perceptions Implement competency or organization effectiveness models Exhibit strong top management leadership support and passion

Ethics and Organizational Leadership
Ethics and Organizational Leadership

Author: Mick Fryer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-04-21

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0199590184

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By connecting theories of leadership and business ethics with moral philosophy and empirical research, this book sets out to develop an understanding of what comprises ethical leadership and to envisage a practicable model for contemporary organizations.