Modern Systemic Leadership : A Holistic Approach for Managers, Coaches, and HR Professionals

by Achouri, Cyrus

• ISBN13: 9783895783623
• ISBN10: 3895783625
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-19
• Publisher: Publicis

Summary

This book supports a turn in the leadership paradigm: from environment to system, from manager to employee. It offers an introduction to essential managerial instruments for the improvement of Performance, like Staff Dialogue, Upward Feedback, Executive Coaching, or Business Ethics. Different leadership styles and techniques are explained as well as international and intercultural dimensions of Human Resources Management. Furthermore an innovative approach is developed to utilize System Theory und its interdisciplinary results in evolutionism, biology, physics, philosophy, cognition science and therapy for the design of Systemic Leadership. The book is intended - as a source of new ideas and creative proposals for Executives and Personnel Managers who, in their enterprises, want to put into practice an Extended Catalogue of Management Tools, and - for Students to accompany lectures in Business Administration with focus on Personnel Management.

Author Biography

Prof. Dr. Cyrus Achouri is professor for human resources management at the University of Nuertingen, Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Performance Management Systems

Feedback

Staff Dialogue

Upward Feedback

360º Feedback

Human Resources Controlling

Coaching as Instrument of Executive Development

Quality Criteria and Process Stages

Consulting Approaches

Leadership and Ethics

Individual Values

Company Values

Society Values: Demography, Part-Time Work and Empowerment

Theories of Leadership

Employee Motivation

Idea of Man

Leadership styles

Management Techniques

Intercultural Leadership - HR Management in a Globalized World Economy

Organizational Cultures

Culture Strategies, Decision Finding and Internationalization

Cultural Dimensions and Expressions

Culture-specific Career Models

The GLOBE Study

Disciplines of System Theory

System Theory as Interdisciplinary Approach

Summary

Systemic Leadership

Six Theses

Consequences for Leadership

Bibliography

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