Leadership: Succeeding in the Private, Public, and Not-for-profit Sectors: Succeeding in the Private, Public, and Not-for-profit Sectors

by Sims,Ronald R.

• ISBN13: 9780765614308
• ISBN10: 0765614308
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The team of experts contributing to this comprehensive and up-to-date text discusses major current and future challenges faced in leading organizations, real-world views on the best methods, and actionable or teachable practices for responding to these leadership challenges. Guided by a unique crossfunctional and cross-contextual framework, the experts define what they see as the major leadership challenges in highly visible organizations throughout for-profits, not-for-profits, government, and similar contexts worldwide. This volume is designed as a general survey of leadership problems and a presentation of their possible solutions for executive policy makers, as well as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Ronald R. Sims
Scott A. Quatro
Part I: Leadership in For-Profit Organizations
From Monopoly to Competition: Challenges for Leaders in the Deregulated Investor-Owned Utility Industry	3	(22)
R. Kevin McClean
Reforming Wall Street: Challenges for Financial Leaders in Publicly Traded Firms	25	(21)
L. Keith Whitney
Michael D. Yonker
Beyond Wall Street: Leadership Challenges Unique to Small Private Companies and Entrepreneurial Firms	46	(19)
Erik Hoekstra
Scott R. Peterson
Knowledge Management Leadership Challenges: Coping with Mental Models and Operationalizing Knowledge Management Strategy and Practice	65	(22)
Tom R. Eucker
Part II: Leadership in Not-For-Profit Organizations
Leadership in a Not-for-Profit World: A Mixed Toolbox	87	(18)
Andrea B. Bear
Michael A. Fitzgibbon
The Challenges of Interpersonal Relationships, Employee Discipline, and Leadership Effectiveness in Religious Nonprofit Organizations	105	(12)
Craig Osten
What the New Nonprofit Leaders Should Learn About Finance: Beyond Fund-raising and Accounting	117	(17)
Herrington J. Bryce
Team-Based Leadership and Change in the Christian Church	134	(21)
Rev. Michael W. Honeycutt
Rev. Clay Smith
Part III: Leadership in Government Organizations
Notes from the Belly of the Beast: Leadership Challenges in the Federal Government	155	(22)
Richard F. Cullins
The Achievements and Challenges of Military Leadership	177	(18)
Christopher Taylor
Leadership Challenges in Education: Improving Administrative Decision Making	195	(21)
Serbrenia J. Sims
Ronald R. Sims
Leadership Challenges in Local Government: Economic Development, Financial Management, and Ethical Leadership	216	(23)
William I. Sauser, Jr.
Lane D. Sauser
Joe A. Sumners
Part IV: Leadership Across Multiple Organizational Contexts
Developmental-Servant Leadership for Human Resource Professionals	239	(21)
Jerry W. Gilley
Ann Gilley
Engaging People's Passion: Leadership for the New Century	260	(20)
Diana Bilimoria
Lindsey Godwin
``HR-Minded'' Leadership: Five Critical Areas of Focus for Contemporary Organizational Leaders	280	(17)
Scott A. Quatro
Leaders Speak: Success and Failure in Their Own Words	297	(24)
William J. Mea
Shawn M. Carraher
Part V: Global Leadership
Worldview and Global Leadership	321	(27)
John R. Visser
What Good Is This to Me? Managerial Implications of Global Leadership Research	348	(19)
Marcus W. Dickson
Deanne N. Den Hartog
New Rules for a New Century: Help for Management and Leadership in This New Global Century	367	(19)
Kenneth L. Murrell
Restoring Ethics Consciousness to Organizations and the Workplace: Every Contemporary Leader's Challenge	386	(23)
Ronald R. Sims
About the Authors	409	(10)
Index	419