Leadership

Description

Today, there are a growing number of business schools, law schools, and continuing education programs in executive development and management training that offer leadership classes. Despite the growing curricular recognition of this area, there is a shortage of strong college-level texts. Leadership, second edition—a completely up-to-date anthology of key writings by well-known contributors—meets this need for a textbook that encompasses the major theories in the field of leadership.

Leadership is divided into six sections. Part I provides an overview of the subject with readings that examine what leaders actually do, as well as the many myths surrounding the notion of leadership. Part II focuses on the fundamentals of leadership by taking a close look at the specific tactics people use to get their own way. These readings analyze the political games people play and the two-way nature of leader-subordinate influence. Part III considers problems that can arise from leadership gone wrong—when power and influence are abused. The major formal models of leadership that have been offered over the years are reviewed in Part IV. The next section looks at contemporary views of leadership, emphasizing reliance on maturity of subordinates for success, including leadership in the context of self-directed work teams, entrepreneurial leadership, the notion of the leader as servant, and examples of leaders who are recognized for having empowered others or for providing moral leadership. The final section examines the roles of societal and organizational cultures as they pertain to leadership.

Robert P. Vecchio has updated the second edition with six new articles. Aimed at upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level courses, Leadership continues to provide classic essays by the major figures in the field of leadership along with topical essays on current and emerging issues.

Sujets

• Organizational Behavior
• Gestion et management
• Organizational studies
• Economics
• Business
• Leadership
• Management

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 31
• EAN13: 9780268161620
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Leadership
Leadership
Understanding the Dynamics of Power and Influence in Organizations
Robert P. Vecchio
Editor

Second Edition
University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved
Published in the United States of America
Copyright 2007 by University of Notre Dame Reprinted in 2008, 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Leadership : understanding the dynamics of power and influence in organizations / Robert P. Vecchio, editor. - 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-04367-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-268-04367-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Leadership. 2. Executive ability. I. Vecchio, Robert P.
HD57.7.L4373 2007
658.4 092-dc22
2007017491
ISBN 9780268161620
This book is printed on acid-free paper .
This e-Book was converted from the original source file by a third-party vendor. Readers who notice any formatting, textual, or readability issues are encouraged to contact the publisher at [e-mail] .
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction and Overview
Concepts of Leadership
Bernard M. Bass
What Leaders Really Do
John P. Kotter
The Manager s Job: Folklore and Fact
Henry Mintzberg
Crucibles of Leadership
Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas
Can Leadership Be Taught?
Robert P. Vecchio
II. Power and Influence
Power, Politics, and Influence
Robert P. Vecchio
Managing Your Boss
John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter
Effective Followership: Leadership Turned Upside Down
Robert P. Vecchio
Intraorganizational Influence Tactics: Explorations in Getting One s Way
David Kipnis, Stuart M. Schmidt, and Ian Wilkinson
A Social Influence Interpretation of Worker Motivation
Mario Sussmann and Robert P. Vecchio
III. Dysfunctional Aspects of Leadership
Groupthink
Irving L. Janis
The Power of Leader Expectations: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Organizations
Robert P. Vecchio
The Long-Term Organizational Impact of Destructively Narcissistic Managers
Roy Lubit
The Dark Side of Leadership
Jay A. Conger
Leaders Who Self-Destruct: The Causes and Cures
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B
Steven Kerr
IV. Models of Leadership
Path-Goal Theory of Leadership
Robert J. House and Terence R. Mitchell
Are You In or Out with Your Boss?
Robert P. Vecchio
Can Leaders Learn to Lead?
Victor H. Vroom
WICS: A Model of Leadership in Organizations
Robert J. Sternberg
From Transactional to Transformational Leadership: Learning to Share the Vision
Bernard M. Bass
Situational Leadership Theory: An Examination of a Prescriptive Theory
Robert P. Vecchio
The Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness: Its Levels of Analysis
Roya Ayman, Martin M. Chemers, and Fred Fiedler
V. Alternative Views of Leadership
Substitutes for Leadership: Effective Alternatives to Ineffective Leadership
Jon P. Howell, David E. Bowen, Peter W. Dorfman, Steven Kerr, and Philip M. Podsakoff
SuperLeadership: Beyond the Myth of Heroic Leadership
Charles C. Manz and Henry P. Sims, Jr .
Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve
Jim Collins
The Servant as Leader
Robert K. Greenleaf
The Case of a Servant Leader: John F. Donnelly, Sr.
Robert J. Doyle
A Man of Transactions
Terrence Rafferty
Entrepreneurship and Leadership: Common Trends and Common Threads
Robert P. Vecchio
VI. Emerging Issues
Cultural Constraints in Management Theories
Geert Hofstede
Organizational Culture and Strategic Leadership: Issues in the Management of Strategic Change
Clayton G. Smith and Robert P. Vecchio
Challenges to Leadership in the Implementation of Technological Change
Mary D. Zalesny and Robert P. Vecchio
Leadership and Gender Advantage
Robert P. Vecchio
It s Not Easy Being Green: Jealousy and Envy in the Workplace
Robert P. Vecchio
About the Editor
Preface
Employees in both large and small organizations are experiencing tremendous personal and professional pressures which are a product of the changing context in which organizations operate today. Chief among these changes are growing globalization, down-sizing of organizations, the introduction of participative work-team structures, increasing diversity in the work force, and greater legal constraints. In order to cope with these forces, supervisors and administrators need a deeper understanding of how to marshal and manage human resources.
In response to these challenges, leadership training is frequently cited as an area warranting greater investment. Today, more and more universities are offering leadership classes-often as electives within colleges of business administration or departments of psychology and sociology. Leadership courses are also found in continuing education programs, such as those in executive development and management training. Despite growing recognition of this area within the curriculum, there is still a shortage of strong (i.e., academically grounded) college-level texts in this area. Leadership , an anthology of key writings by renowned contributors, is designed to meet the need for a text that encompasses the major theories in the field. Materials have been selected from journals and periodicals widely recognized for publishing in the areas of general management and leadership.
This book is aimed at upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level students in leadership and management, and would be appropriate for executive MBA courses. Portions of the text may also be useful for continuing education training programs of short duration (one to three days), with a reliance on assigned readings for participants. Departments of psychology, political science, sociology, public administration, nursing, safety, and education will also find it relevant. By going beyond a general introduction, Leadership fills a need at the university level for a text on leadership with an academic, critical focus which is rich with high quality writing and innovative, yet practical, material.
Leadership is divided into six sections. Part I provides an overview of the subject with readings that examine what leaders actually do, as well as the many myths surrounding the notion of leadership. Part II focuses on the fundamentals of leadership by taking a close look at the specific tactics people use to get their own way. These readings analyze the political games people play and the two-way nature of leader-subordinate influence. Part III considers problems that can arise from leadership gone wrong-when power and influence are abused. The major, formal models of leadership that have been offered over the years are reviewed in Part IV . These articles include newer variations of the leadership-trait model, as well as behavioral and situational views. Part V looks at contemporary views of leadership, emphasizing reliance on maturity of subordinates for success. This area includes leadership in the context of self-directed work teams, entrepreneurial leadership, the notion of the leader as servant, and examples of leaders who are recognized for having empowered others or for providing moral leadership. The final section, Part VI , overviews the roles of societal and organizational cultures as they pertain to leadership. This section also considers gender issues that relate to managerial roles, as well as the problems inherent in situations where extreme emotions are present in the workplace.
Each of the six sections opens with a selection of interesting quotes on leadership. These quotes are drawn from a variety of business, popular, historical, and academic sources. They are intended to raise issues that are of relevance to the theme of each section, and may help serve as discussion starters.
In this second edition of Leadership , the selection of articles has been updated where appropriate, while popular classic materials have been retained. As before, there is a mix of scholarly and managerial writings.
I am grateful to Barbara Hanrahan, Lowell Francis, and Charles Van Hof of the Notre Dame Press for their enthusiastic support of the new edition of this text. Their strong belief in the importance of leadership as a topic and in the value of this book has helped to make it a reality. I am, as ever, indebted to the support of my staff assistants, Kim Brumbaugh and Jacqueline Marnocha, and my wife Betty for their help in the preparation of the final manuscript, and also to the support of Dean Carolyn Woo of the College of Business Administration.
Acknowledgments
The author and publisher are grateful to the following for permission to reprint:
The Free Press, publishers of Bass Stogdill s Handbook of Leadership , for Concepts of Leadership, (1990): 3-15.
Harvard Business School Press, publishers of Harvard Business Review , for What Leaders Really Do, (May-June 1990): 103-105, 107, 111.
Harvard Business School Press, publishers of Harvard Business Review , for The Manager s Job: Folklore and Fact, (July-August 1975): 49-61.
Harvard Business School Press, publishers of Harvard Business Review , for Crucibles of Leadership, (September-October 2002): 39-46.
Thomson Learning, publishers of Organizational Behavior , Third Edition, for Power, Politics, and Influence, Chapter 9, (1