Leading Organizations : Perspectives for a New Era

by Gill Robinson Hickman

• ISBN13: 9781412939089
• ISBN10: 1412939089
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-09
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

This text includes 50 short chapters from the most prominent international scholars of leadership who provide students with invaluable overviews, insights, and perspectives on leadership in today's organizations. The book has a central organizing framework outlining the components of leadership (which is presented in the Introduction). It incorporates a new section on shared responsibility for leadership, new chapters on the external environment and on dysfunctional or unethical leadership behavior, a new section on inclusion, together with coverage of all the classic leadership theories, with updated chapters covering vision, mission, and structure that enhance the relevance of these theories in today's organizational context.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. x
The Environment of New Era Organizations	p. 1
Inevitable Strategies	p. 4
Globalization	p. 14
Creating the Environmentally Aware Organization	p. 21
How to Make Sense of Weak Signals	p. 37
Wikinomics: The Art and Science of Peer Production	p. 48
Leadership Concepts and Theories	p. 63
Leadership (Excerpts)	p. 66
The Transformational Model of Leadership	p. 76
Servant Leadership	p. 87
Charismatic Theory	p. 96
Contingency Theories of Leadership	p. 101
Strategic Leadership: Top Management Teams	p. 122
Shared Responsibility for Leadership	p. 163
All Those Years Ago: The Historical Underpinnings of Shared Leadership	p. 167
Foliowership	p. 181
Empowerment	p. 191
Leadership and the Problem of Bogus Empowerment	p. 195
Leading Teams: Imperatives for Leaders	p. 209
E-Leadership	p. 239
Leadership in the 21st Century	p. 245
Impetus for Organizational Leadership	p. 255
What Do We Know About Vision?	p. 258
Is Your Vision Consistent? A Method for Checking, Based on Scenario Concepts	p. 270
The Mission Statement: A Corporate Reporting Tool With a Past, Present, and Future	p. 289
Do Firms Practice What They Preach? The Relationship Between Mission Statements and Stakeholder Management	p. 297
What Is the Right Organization Design?	p. 307
Culture: The Organization's DNA	p. 323
Influencing Organization Culture	p. 326
The Learning Culture and the Learning Leader	p. 331
Moral Leadership and Business Ethics	p. 345
Characteristics of Ethical Business Cultures	p. 356
Being Ethical When the Boss Is Not	p. 365
Toxic Leaders: They're Plentiful	p. 377
Making Meaning of Being Bad	p. 391
Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership	p. 402
Inclusion	p. 407
Unlocking the Benefits of Diversity: All-Inclusive Multiculturalism and Positive Organizational Change	p. 411
Goal Interdependence for Working Across Cultural Boundaries: Chinese Employees With Foreign Managers	p. 425
Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership	p. 439
"Just Because You Can Get a Wheelchair in the Building Doesn't Necessarily Mean That You Can Still Participate": Barriers to the Career Advancement of Disabled Professionals	p. 448
Supporting a Diverse Workforce: What Type of Support Is Most Meaningful for Lesbian and Gay Employees?	p. 459
The Multìgenerational Workforce: Opportunity for Competitive Success	p. 474
Respectful Pluralism at Work	p. 484
Capacity Building	p. 501
Adaptive Work	p. 505
Organizational Change Practices	p. 510
Collaborating for Systemic Change	p. 525
Leading Through Conflict: The Mediator	p. 538
Illuminating a Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenge: When Identity Groups Collide	p. 545
Beyond Empowerment: Building a Company of Citizens	p. 567
The Tenets of the Democratic Enterprise	p. 573
The Path to Democracy and Sharing	p. 580
New Responsibilities of Organizational Leadership: Social Activism
Leading Corporate Citizenship	p. 590
A New Kind of Company: B Corporations Worry About Stakeholders, Not Just Shareholders	p. 615
Ideologically Motivated Activism: How Activist Groups Influence Corporate Social Change Activities	p. 618
Missionary Leadership: Harnessing the Power of the Mission	p. 642
Author Index	p. 648
Subject Index	p. 658
About the Editor	p. 683
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