Flexible Leadership Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices

Name: Flexible Leadership Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices
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ISBN: 9780787965310

ISBN-10: 0787965316

ISBN-13: 9780787965310

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gary A. Yukl, Richard Lepsinger

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If you are a manager or a training and development professional, you need concrete suggestions for guiding your organization through rapidly changing conditions and difficult challenges. Flexible Leadership offers a comprehensive theory that integrates findings from different disciplines and more than a half century of research and explains how leaders can effectively enhance the bottom-line performance of their organizations. The authors provide illustrative examples of effective and ineffective leadership, including some from their own consulting experiences over the past 30 years in private and public sector organizations. The book includes information about Leadership and management…

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List price: $61.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/5/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.012

ANNTOINNETTE D. LUCIA and RICHARD LEPSINGER are managing partners of Manus, a Right Management Consultants company that specializes in helping organizations implement business strategies. Their consulting work has included facilitating organizational change; team building for senior management teams; linking human resource plans to strategic plans; ensuring the integration of teams following mergers; designing, conducting, and evaluating executive and management development programs; developing competency models; and using feedback systems to help individual executives improve their effectiveness. They have worked with managers and management teams at Coca-Cola, Allied Signal, Northwestern…



Acknowledgments


Preface


The Authors



The Nature of Effective Leadership


Leadership: Fact and Myth


Model of Flexible Leadership


Origins of the Model


Overview of the Book


Conclusions



Efficiency and Process Reliability



The Challenge of Improving Efficiency and Process Reliability


Examples of High Efficiency and Process Reliability


Conditions Affecting Efficiency and Process Reliability


Ways to Improve Efficiency and Process Reliability


Conclusions



Leadership Behaviors to Enhance Efficiency and Process Reliability


Operational Planning


Clarifying Roles and Objectives


Monitoring Operations and Performance


Solving Operational Problems


Relationships Among the Behaviors


Conclusions



Programs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency and Process Reliability


Quality and Process Improvement Programs


Cost Reduction Programs


Management Systems and Structural Forms


Recognition and Reward Programs


Conclusions



Innovation and Adaptation



The Challenge of Adapting to the External Environment


Conditions Affecting the Importance of Adaptation


Examples of Failure in Adaptation


Examples of Successful Adaptation


Reasons for Success and Failure


Ways to Enhance Adaptations


Conclusions



Leader Behaviors to Enhance Adaptation


Monitoring the Environment


Strategic Planning


Envisioning Change


Building Support for Change


Implementing Change


Encouraging Innovative Thinking


Facilitating Collective Learning


Relationships Among Change-Oriented Behaviors


Conclusions



Programs, Systems, and Strategies for Enhancing Adaptation


Intrepreneurship Programs


External Benchmarking


Programs for Understanding Customers


Reward and Recognition Programs


Collective Learning Practices


Knowledge Management Systems


Structural Forms to Facilitate Innovation


Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Alliances


Conclusions



Human Resources and Relations



The Challenge of Managing Human Resources


Conditions That Affect the Importance of Human Resources


Implications of Strategy for Human Resources


Examples of Good Human Relations


Examples of Human Relations Problems


Ways to Improve Human Resources and Relations


Conclusions



Leader Behaviors for Enhancing Human Resources


Supporting


Recognizing


Developing


Consulting


Empowering


Team Building


Relationships Among the Behaviors


Conclusions



Programs and Management Systems for Enhancing Human Resources


Human Resource Planning Systems


Employee Development Programs


Empowerment Programs


Recognition, Award, and Benefit Programs


Quality of Work Life Programs


Orientation and Team-Building Programs


Conclusions



Finding the Right Balance



Multiple Challenges and Tradeoffs for Leaders


Tradeoffs Among the Three Performance Determinants


Changes in Performance Determinants


Examples of Effective Balancing


Other Tradeoffs for Leaders


Conclusions



The Path to Flexible Leadership


Guidelines for Effective Leadership


Competencies for Effective Leadership


Conclusion: The Essence of Flexible Leadership


Notes


Index