Leadership Perspectives: Knowledge into Action

✍ Scribed by Kim Turnbull James, James Collins (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
New Perspectives on Leadership: How Practical is a Good Theory?....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Event’s the Thing: Brief Encounters With the Leaderful Moment....Pages 15-28
Leadership, Spirituality and Complexity: Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade....Pages 29-42
Sharing Thoughts on Leadership and Friendship....Pages 43-57
How to Become a Globally Responsible Leader: Rites of Passage and Transitional Space....Pages 58-71
Strategic Leadership....Pages 72-85
Voluntarism, Representative Leadership and Organisational Democracy....Pages 86-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Public Sector Leader Change Strategies: A Focus on Technical or Collaborative Solutions....Pages 105-113
Leadership in the British Army — A Gendered Construct?....Pages 114-129
Leadership in Higher Education....Pages 130-143
Departmental Affiliation, Leadership and Leadership Development....Pages 144-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Leading with Political Awareness: Leadership Across Diverse Interests Inside and Outside the Organisation....Pages 163-176
Political-Management Leadership....Pages 177-192
Leaders and Their Self-Efficacy Beliefs: Why Working Relationships Matter....Pages 193-207
The Importance of Role Models in the Development of Leaders’ Professional Identities....Pages 208-222
Distributed Leadership in Project Teams....Pages 223-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-245

✦ Subjects

Business Strategy/Leadership; Management