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Exploring Leadership Individual, Organizational, and Societal Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 0199547661

ISBN-13: 9780199547661

Edition: 2011

Authors: Richard Bolden, Jonathan Gosling, Beverley Hawkins, Scott Taylor

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Are leaders born or made? Does each society get the leaders it deserves? How - and why - is leadership 'rhetoric' different from leadership in reality?Leadership is one of the most talked about yet least understood concepts in current business and society. This book explores how theoretical models and views of leadership have evolved over time, how leadership should be discussed from individual, organizational, and societal perspectives, and the perennial dilemmas and emerging perspectives of leadership. Positioning its discussion within a multidisciplinary framework that touches on management, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, history,literature, and politics, this book examines and…    
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List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 1/31/2023
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.49" tall
Weight: 0.946

Publishing jack-of-all-trades R. Scott Taylor has worn many hats in the field of both fantasy and science fiction for the past decade and is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent press Art of the Genre. He has worked as an art director, editor, agent, blogger, Kickstarter entrepreneur, and most recently created the digital fiction publishing arm, Skull Island eXpeditions, for Privateer Press. He still maintains a daily RPG art blog on his Art of the Genre website as well as appearing monthly as a guest gaming art blogger for Black Gate Magazine. He is also the author of four books in his homebrew world of the Nameless Realms, and editor of the Tales of the Emerald…    

List of Figures and Boxes
Author Biographies
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Exploring Leadership
Not 'Another' Book on Leadership!
Leadership: The Panacea of our Times?
Changing Perspectives on Leadership
Studying Leadership
Dissatisfaction with Leadership and Management Theory and Education
Reframing Leadership Studies
Chapter Summary
Theoretical Perspectives on Leadership
The Contested Nature of Leadership
Philosophical Origins of Contemporary Leadership Theory
Leadership is Sexy and Management is Boring... or are they?
Contemporary Theories of Leadership
So, What is Leadership?
Chapter Summary
Individual Perspectives on Leadership
Leadership and Personality: What are Leaders LIKE?
Leadership Styles and Behaviours: What do Leaders DO?
Leadership and Identity: Who do you Think you are?
Keeping it Real: The Implications of Authentic Leadership
Are You Sitting Comfortably? Leaders as Storytellers
Leading from the Heart? Leadership and Emotions
Just Another Set of Traits? Critiques of Authentic and Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Chapter Summary
Organizational Perspectives on Leadership
Leadership and Organizational Performance
Leadership and Power
Leadership Competencies: The Science of Leadership
Setting the Direction: Strategic Leadership
Rites, Rituals, and Belonging: Leadership and Organizational Culture
Setting the Scene: Putting Leadership into Context
Researching Leadership in Organizations
Chapter Summary
Societal Perspectives on Leadership
Being 'One of us': Leading in Communities
Being Global, Being Local, and Being Worldly
Saving Our Planet and Ourselves: Leading for Sustainability
Beauty and Aesthetics in Leadership: Cultural Leadership
When 'Leadership' isn't the Answer
Chapter Summary
Emerging Perspectives and Enduring Dilemmas in Leadership
Why can't a Woman Behave like a Man? Leadership and Gender
Leaders Make me Sick! Leadership and Toxicity
Being Absent, Being Present: Leadership in a 'Virtual World'
The Social Responsibility of Business is... Leadership and Morality
Leading into a Meaningful Future: Leadership and Spirituality
Chapter Summary
Conclusion: Where Next for Leadership Studies?
Leadership, Society and the Next Ten Years
Preparing for an Uncertain Future
Many Perspectives but no 'Right' Way of Looking at Leadership
Rerouting our Enquiries
Moving Forward with an Eye on the Past
Chapter Summary
Reference
Index