Leadership Perspectives: Knowledge into Action

✍ Scribed by Kim Turnbull James, James Collins

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Taking its theme from the fifth annual Studying Leadership conference held at Cranfield School of Management, this work offers new formulations of the concept of leadership. Making a clear link between research and practice, it explores how new ideas about leadership will lead to new approaches to leadership practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 9
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
Thanks and Acknowledgements......Page 16
1 New Perspectives on Leadership: How Practical is a Good Theory?......Page 18
Part I: New Constructions of Leadership......Page 30
2 The Event’s the Thing: Brief Encounters With the Leaderful Moment......Page 32
3 Leadership, Spirituality and Complexity: Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade......Page 46
4 Sharing Thoughts on Leadership and Friendship......Page 60
5 How to Become a Globally Responsible Leader: Rites of Passage and Transitional Space......Page 75
6 Strategic Leadership......Page 89
7 Voluntarism, Representative Leadership and Organisational Democracy......Page 103
Part II: The Importance of Context......Page 120
8 Public Sector Leader Change Strategies: A Focus on Technical or Collaborative Solutions......Page 122
9 Leadership in the British Army – A Gendered Construct?......Page 131
10 Leadership in Higher Education......Page 147
11 Departmental Affiliation, Leadership and Leadership Development......Page 161
Part III: Leadership and Relationships......Page 178
12 Leading with Political Awareness: Leadership Across Diverse Interests Inside and Outside the Organisation......Page 180
13 Political-Management Leadership......Page 194
14 Leaders and Their Self-Efficacy Beliefs: Why Working Relationships Matter......Page 210
15 The Importance of Role Models in the Development of Leaders’ Professional Identities......Page 225
16 Distributed Leadership in Project Teams......Page 240
C......Page 255
E......Page 256
H......Page 257
O......Page 258
P......Page 259
R......Page 260
T......Page 261
W......Page 262