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Leadership Dynamics

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ISBN-10: 0029148308

ISBN-13: 9780029148303

Edition: 1984

Authors: Edwin P. Hollander

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 4/1/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.616

Edwin P. Hollander has written extensively on leadership and related topics in social psychology. He is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has also served as Provost of Social Sciences. A Columbia Ph.D., he began his leadership research while on duty as a navel aviation psychologist, and has taught at Carnegie-Mellon, Washington (St. Louis), and American universities, with visiting appointments at Istanbul, Wisconsin, Harvard, and Oxford universities. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Hollander is former president of its Division of General Psychology.

Introduction
Preface
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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