Understanding Behaviors for Effective Leadership

by Howell, Jon P.; Costley, Dan L.

• ISBN13: 9780130284037
• ISBN10: 0130284033
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For junior/senior-level courses in Leadership that can be found in business, nursing, military science, criminal justice, education, government or agriculture curriculum. Providing a comprehensive review of the major behavior patterns that effective leaders use to influence followers, this book keys in on what effective leaders really do and emphasizes how leaders can diagnose and modify situations and followers to make their leadership a more positive and productive endeavor. The text is organized into an easy-to-follow three-part structure. Part I introduces the concept of leadership, the approach of the book, and descriptions and evaluations of several currently popular situational leadership theories. Part II describes the five core leadership behavior patterns (supportiveness, directiveness, participation, reward/punishment, and charismatic behavior). Part III examines current leadership issues in organizations, with a concluding chapter that summarizes the impacts of the leadership behaviors in organizations.

Table of Contents

PART I: BASIC LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS	1	(52)
Leadership and Its Importance	3	(18)
Leadership Behaviors and Processes	21	(16)
Contingency Models of Leadership	37	(16)
PART II: CORE LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS	53	(204)
Supportive Leadership Behavior	55	(16)
Situational Dynamics of Supportive Leadership	71	(20)
Directive Leadership Behavior	91	(18)
Situational Dynamics of Directive Leadership	109	(21)
Participative Leadership Behavior	130	(22)
Situational Dynamics of Participative Leadership	152	(19)
Leader Reward and Punishment Behaviors	171	(21)
Situational Dynamics of Leader Reward and Punishment Behaviors	192	(22)
Charismatic Leadership Behavior	214	(22)
Situational Dynamics of Charismatic Leadership Behavior	236	(21)
PART III: CURRENT LEADERSHIP ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONS	257	(2)
Boundary Spanning and Team Leadership	259	(22)
Building Social Exchanges, Fairness, and Ethics	281	(22)
Followership	303	(14)
Conclusions and Issues for 2000 and Beyond	317

Excerpts

Preface The basic premise of this book iswe know our leaders by what they do.Leaders demonstrate their competence by setting worthwhile and challenging goals with followers, by showing confidence in followers and supporting their efforts to perform well and to improve themselves, and by giving recognition to followers when they do a job well. We expect our leaders to perform these and other important leadership behaviors. We may also expect leaders to be intelligent, visionary, inspirational, ethical, fair, and self-confident but we only perceive these personal characteristics by observing and experiencing a leader's behavior. When leaders successfully carry out these behaviors and produce favorable results for their groups and organizations, we view these leaders as effective. We have been teaching leadership in universities and colleges for over 20 years. We have used existing leadership textbooks as well as academic and popular articles that describe current theories and approaches about what it takes to be an effective leader. Our intent was to convey to our students the richness and breadth of knowledge about leadership that has accumulated during the twentieth century. We finally ' realized, however, that this approach left most students confused and frustrated. There were simply too many theories and approaches to leadership for most undergraduates (and many MBA students) to absorb and use. They often became lost in the mass of leadership theories and research presented in existing leadership textbooks. By the end of the course, they usually had no idea when or if a given theory was appropriate and often "latched on" to an overly simplistic and poorly supported model of leadership because it was simple enough for them to understand and remember. We have not emphasized leadership theories in this book. Instead, we organized the book according to a simple common-sense structure that describes current knowledge onwhat effective leaders really do.Most of the leader behaviors described in the chapters that follow have been extensively researched as part of various theoretical models proposed by leadership scholars. In this book, we have presented what is known about each leader behavior without the baggage of many different theories. Although these leader behaviors may overlap to some degree, they are widely recognized and discussed by managers and leadership experts. This structure is designed to minimize confusion, to facilitate understanding, and to provide students with some psychological closure on each leader behavior. AUDIENCE This book is intended for use in any college course that focuses on effective leadership. Examples of these courses include Leadership and Motivation, Leadership in Society, Nursing Leadership, Not-for-Profit Leadership, Leadership in Law Enforcement, or Leadership in Education. The book is also appropriate for a first course in leadership training in business, public, educational, health care, or other organizations. STRUCTURE AND FEATURES Part I of the book includes three chapters that introduce the concept of leadership and the approach of the book, and describe and evaluate several currently popular theories of leadership. Part II is composed of ten central chapters that focus on five core leadership behavior patterns that have been studied extensively in different organizational contexts. Two chapters each are devoted to leaders' supportiveness, directiveness, participation, reward and punishment, and charismatic behaviors. These core chapters emphasizewhat effective leaders doby describing in detail each of the core leader behaviors. These chapters also emphasizehow they do itby identifying leader traits, skills, and sources of power associated with each behavior as well as examples of effective and ineffective leaders carrying out the behaviors. The core chapters also describewhen leade