The Psychology of Leadership: New Perspectives and Research

by Messick,David M.

• ISBN13: 9780805840940
• ISBN10: 080584094X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-04
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

In this book, some of the world's leading scholars come together to describe their thinking and research on the topic of the psychology of leadership. Most of the chapters were originally presented as papers at a research conference held in 2001 at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. The contributions span traditional social psychological areas, as well as organizational theory; examining leadership as a psychological process and as afforded by organizational constraints and opportunities. The editors' goal was not to focus the chapters on a single approach to the study and conceptualization of leadership but rather to display the diversity of issues that surround the topic. Leadership scholars have identified a host of approaches to the study of leadership. What are the personal characteristics of leaders? What is the nature of the relation between leaders and followers? Why do we perceive some people to be better leaders than others? What are the circumstances that evoke leadership qualities in people? Can leadership be taught? And so on. The contributions to this book examine these important questions and fall into three categories: conceptions of leadership, factors that influence the effectiveness of leadership, and the consequences and effects of leadership on the leader. All in all, the chapters of this volume display part of a broad spectrum of novel and important approaches to the study of the psychology of leadership. We hope that they are equally useful to those who are or would be leaders and to those who study the topic. As recent events have served to remind us, it is too important a topic to be ignored by psychologists.

Table of Contents

Contents

Series Foreword

Introduction: New Approaches to the Psychology of Leadership

Conceptions of Leadership

The Cultural Ecology of Leadership: An Analysis of Popular Leadership Books

Social Identity and Leadership

On the Psychological Exchange Between Leaders and Followers

The Psychodynamics of Leadership: Freud's Insights and Their Vicissitudes

Effectiveness of Leadership

Rethinking Team Leadership:orTeams Leaders Are Not Music Directors

Leadership as Group Regulation

Process-Based Leadership: How Do Leaders Lead?

Claiming Authority: Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements

Consequences of Leadership

The Perception of Conspiracy: Leader Paranoia as Adaptive Cognition

Leadership and the Psychology of Power

The Demise of Leadership: Death Positivity Biases in Posthumous Impressions of Leaders

Commentary

When Leadership Matters and When It Does Not: A Commentary

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