The Psychology of Leadership: New Perspectives and Research

by Messick,David M.

• ISBN13: 9780805840957
• ISBN10: 0805840958
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-08-02
• 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

Series Foreword	ix
Arthur P. Brief
James P. Walsh
Contributors	xi
Introduction: New Approaches to the Psychology of Leadership	1	(10)
David M. Messick
Roderick M. Kramer
Part I: Conceptions of Leadership
The Cultural Ecology of Leadership: An Analysis of Popular Leadership Books	11	(42)
Michelle C. Bligh
James R. Meindl
Social Identity and Leadership	53	(28)
Michael A. Hogg
On the Psychological Exchange Between Leaders and Followers	81	(16)
David M. Messick
The Psychodynamics of Leadership: Freud's Insights and Their Vicissitudes	97	(18)
George R. Goethals
Part II: Effectiveness of Leadership
Rethinking Team Leadership or Teams Leaders Are Not Music Directors	115	(28)
J. Richard Hackman
Leadership as Group Regulation	143	(20)
Randall S. Peterson
Kristin J. Behfar
Process-Based Leadership: How Do Leaders Lead?	163	(28)
Tom R. Tyler
Claiming Authority: Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders	191	(18)
Hannah R. Bowles
Kathleen L. McGinn
Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements	209	(32)
Marshall Ganz
Part III: Consequences of Leadership
The Perception of Conspiracy: Leader Paranoia as Adaptive Cognition	241	(34)
Roderick M. Kramer
Dana Gavrieli
Leadership and the Psychology of Power	275	(20)
Joe C. Magee
Deborah H Gruenfeld
Dacher J. Keltner
Adam D. Galinsky
The Demise of Leadership: Death Positivity Biases in Posthumous Impressions of Leaders	295	(26)
Scott T. Allison
Dafna Eylon
Part IV: Commentary
When Leadership Matters and When It Does Not: A Commentary	321	(12)
Suzanne Chan
Arthur P. Brief
Author Index	333	(12)
Subject Index	345