Leader Development for Transforming Organizations : Growing Leaders for Tomorrow

by Day, David V.; Zaccaro, Stephen J.; Halpin, Stanley M.

• ISBN13: 9780805845860
• ISBN10: 0805845860
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-22
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This book examines numerous topic areas that are considered to be especially relevant for making a strategic leader development investment. The topics covered are areas that have theoretical and empirical connections to important aspects of growth, change, adult development, and underlying abilities, skills, and competencies needed to lead effectively in times of great complexity. In addition, these are investment areas identified by the U.S. Army--a world-class organization faced with the need for radical transformation--as particularly relevant for success and survival. This book identifies key concerns in developing leaders and leadership, and in transforming organizations to better meet the challenges of a complex world. There are two aspects of this book that distinguish it from the numerous existing volumes on leadership in the scholarly and popular-press literatures. Most important, the overarching focus of the present book is on development.There are many offerings on the topic of leadership, but relatively few that focus on leader development--especially from a scholarly, academic perspective. Also, this volume offers a unique perspective in examining those underlying psychological competenciesand processes that are viewed as especially relevant for leader development. The chapters that are collected in this edited volume were originally commissioned by the U.S. Army Research Institute as "white papers" to better help Army officers and researchers understand important issues in leader development. The present organization of the papers is around four central themes: a) Accelerating Leader Development, b) Cognitive Skills Development, c) Developing Practical and Emotional Intelligence, and d) Enhancing Team Skills.

Author Biography

David V. Day received a B.A. degree in psychology from Baldwin-Wallace College (Berea, OH), and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial-organization psychology from the University of Akron. He is presently Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Training at the Pennsylvania State University and is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Day has published more than 40 journal articles and book chapters, many pertaining to the topics of personality, leadership, and leadership development. Journals that have published his scholarly work include: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly,
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology. Dr. Day is the lead editor on the forthcoming book, Leader Development for Transforming Organizations. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Management and is an Associate Editor of Leadership Quarterly. Dr. Day served from 2000-2002 as a civilian member of the U.S. Army Panels for Training and Leader Development (Officer, NCO, and Army Civilian panels) that reported to the Chief of Staff on the state of the Army's practices in the areas of training and leader development.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	ix
Jeanette N. Cleveland and Edwin A. Fleishman
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xii
About the Authors	xiii
I: BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW
1 Growing Leaders for Tomorrow: An Introduction	3	(20)
David V. Day and Stanley M. Halpin
2 Leadership Challenges for the Future	23	(18)
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Lon E. Maggart
II: ACCELERATING LEADER DEVELOPMENT
3 Understanding the Development of Leadership Complexity Through Latent Growth Modeling	41	(30)
David V. Day and Charles E. Lance
4 Examining the Full Range Model of Leadership: Looking Back to Transform Forward	71	(28)
Bruce J. Avolio
5 A Technology to Support Leader Development: Computer Games	99	(26)
Harold O'Neil and Yuan-Chung Fisher
III: COGNITIVE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
6 The Development of Adult Cognition: Understanding Constancy and Change in Adult Learning	125	(28)
Diane F. Halpern
7 Self-Awareness, Identity, and Leader Development	153	(24)
Douglas T. Hall
8 Leadership as the Orchestration and Improvisation of Dialogue: Cognitive and Communicative Skills in Conversations Among Leaders and Subordinates	177	(34)
Marvin S. Cohen
IV: DEVELOPING PRACTICAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
9 Practical Intelligence and Leadership: Using Experience as a "Mentor"	211	(26)
Anna T. Cianciolo, John Antonakis, and Robert J. Sternberg
10 Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Development	237	(30)
David R. Caruso and Charles J. Wolfe
V: ENHANCING TEAM SKILLS
11 Leadership in Virtual Teams	267	(26)
Stephen J. Zaccaro, Sharon D. Ardison, and Kara L. Orvis
12 Promoting Effective Leadership Within Multicultural Teams: An Event-Based Approach	293	(32)
Eduardo Salas, C. Shawn Burke, Katherine A. Wilson-Donnelly, and Jennifer E. Fowlkes
13 Developing Teams and Team Leaders: Strategies and Principles	325	(34)
Eduardo Salas, C. Shawn Burke, and Kevin C. Stagl
VI: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
14 Leader Development and Change Over Time: A Conceptual Integration and Exploration of Research Challenges	359	(24)
Katherine J. Klein and Jonathan C. Ziegert
15 Toward a Science of Leader Development	383	(18)
David V Day and Stephen J. Zaccaro
Author Index	401	(14)
Subject Index	415