The Oxford Handbook of Leadership

by Rumsey, Michael G.

• ISBN13: 9780195398793
• ISBN10: 0195398793
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The study of leadership is a rapidly evolving, multi-faceted field. It is conceptualized as a social and cultural phenomenon, which cannot be fully understood from a single perspective. The leader, the follower, the context, and the interactions amongst these elements must all be considered. The Oxford Handbook of Leadershipexplores the complex relationship between leader, led, and the environment that constitutes leadership. Divided into five parts, this handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the field, including: - an exploration of the roles individual attributes, training, and development play in generating a leader who is capable of performing effectively - an examination of the relationship between leadership and contextual factors in terms of an organizational role, one's culture, and a specific setting (e.g. military, higher education, and presidential) - a critical look at to what extent leader and follower behavior in a social and/or organizational context are tied - a consideration of what leader effectiveness means (i.e., what differentiates effective from ineffective leadership, including promising insights and scholarship that have emerged regarding this issue) - a concluding chapter that provides some overall comments concerning the current state of leadership research and some thoughts about potentially fruitful directions. Leadership research has come a long way, but the inherent dimensionality of the field leaves room for new insights and new directions. As the study of leadership progresses along the route to maturity, the volume will serve as a navigation tool that will provide a solid foundation for future research.

Author Biography

Michael G. Rumsey, Ph.D., is Chief, Personnel Assessment Research Unit, U. S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Leadership in Five Parts

The Making of a Leader: Attributes, Training and Development

The Attributes of Successful Leaders: A Performance Requirements Approach

Personality and Leadership

The WICS Model of Leadership

What Makes Great Business Leaders?

Training and Developing Leaders: Theory and Research

Commentary: A Way Ahead

Leadership in Context: General Issues

Leadership and Followership from a Social Cognition Perspective: A Dual Process Approach

Inclusive Leadership and Idiosyncrasy Credit in Leader-follower Relations

Leading Teams: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives

Overview of Future Research Directions for Team Leadership

Organizational Leadership and Complexity Mechanisms

A Five Dimensional Integrated Framework of Strategic Leadership

Cross-cultural Leadership

Genes, Memes, and the Evolution of Human Leadership

Commentary: When it Comes to Leadership, Context Matters

Leadership in Context: Special Settings

Leadership in the Profession of Arms

Leadership in Higher Education

Presidential leadership: Performance Criteria and their Predictors

Commentary: Leadership in Context and Context in Leadership Studies

The Dynamics of Leadership

The Missing Link in Network Dynamics

Charismatic Leadership

From Transactional and Transformational to Authentic Leadership

Leadership, the Old, the New, and the Timeless: A Commentary

Leadership Effectiveness

Leader Effectiveness: Who Really is the Leader?

Destructive Leadership

Final Words: The Elusive Science of Leadership

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