Rövid leírás:
Reviews historical approaches to the study of leadership effectiveness and studies in depth the leader-follower relationship, arguing that this relationship is a two-way influence process
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Hosszú leírás:
Leadership Dynamics is for leaders and aspiring leaders who want to learn more about the practicalities of the leader-follower relationship and the concepts of effective leadership. Emphasizing the transactional view of leadership as a two-way process of influence, it covers recent research findings (with more than 300 citations) and highlights such crucial topics as attaining and maintaining the leader role and making needed changes.
Personnel Psychology …engagingly written with many references to real world issues. Yet, very extensive citations to research and theory clearly demonstrate the substance behind the thesis…excellent chapter summaries help greatly to organize the material.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Contents
Introduction
Preface
1. Leadership: What Is it?
Leadership Is an Influence Process
Background
Varieties of Leadership
Leadership and the Leader
Leaders and Followers
The Leader-Follower Transaction
Sharing Leadership Activities
Responsibility and Accountability
Summary
2. Ways of Approaching Leadership
The Person and/or the Times?
Traits and Leader Functions
The Description of Leader Behavior
Leader Style
The Situational Approach
Contingency Models
The Transactional Approach
Idiosyncrasy Credit: Earned Status and Innovation
Summary
3. Leader Authority and Followership
Authority and Legitimacy among Followers
The Perception of Status and Credibility
Becoming and Staying a Leader
Effects of Appointed or Elected Leadership
Effects of Followers’ Behavior on Leader Behavior
Summary
4. Social Exchange in Leadership
Basic Concepts of Social Exchange
What Makes for a „Fair Exchange” in Leadership?
Leadership as a Transaction
System Progress and Leader-Follower Team Effectiveness
Distributive Justice and Equity
Leader-Follower Roles and Power
Summary
5. Leadership Functions in Organizations
Leadership Roles and Group Maintenance
Resources and Powers in Management and Administration
Defining Group Functions and Goals Adaptively
The Leader’s Task and Human Relations Functions
Participative Leadership
Job Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
Job Enrichment and Management by Objectives
Summary
6. Leadership Effectiveness
Effectiveness for What?
Identifying Leadership Effectiveness
Interpersonal Qualities in Leadership Effectiveness
Enablement, Restraint, and Autocratic Leadership
Foresight and Planning
Leader Training and the Identification of Effective and Ineffective Leaders
Maintaining the Leader Role
Summary
7. Leadership and Social Change
Making Needed Changes
Organizational and Institutional Responses to Change
Organizational Renewal
Group Dynamics and Change
Charismatic Leaders
Organizational Structure, Control, and Limits to Innovation
Summary
8. Leadership Dynamics: A Summing Up
How the Transactional Approach Is Different
Variations on Leader Competence
Variations on Leader Style
Variations on Leadership Effectiveness
Parting Thoughts
Notes
Works Cited
Name Index
Subject Index
