Cummings / Wilson / Proctor-Thomson Revitalising Leadership

Putting Theory and Practice into Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-41813-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Leadership Research

Revitalising leadership connects leadership theory and practice with context. It argues that the universal prescriptions favoured by most leadership scholars ignore the reality that context always matters in leadership practice – and so it should matter in leadership theorizing too. Addressing this gap, the book offers a novel framework that enables the development of context-sensitive leadership theory and practice. This framework directs theoretical and practical attention to the key challenges for leadership in different organizational contexts. It involves developing a specific purpose for leadership in a given context, as well as formulating the values, norms and domains of action which should guide leadership efforts in that context. Determining these various matters then informs the role, responsibilities, rights, behaviours and attributes relevant to leaders and followers for that context, and the focus, purpose and boundaries of the leader-follower relationship. Deploying this framework, six in-depth illustrative theorisations are provided, showing how leadership practice might best take shape in the contexts of supervisory management; HR management; innovation and entrepreneurship; strategy; governance; and leadership studies itself.

Revitalising leadership will appeal to diverse audiences, due to its theoretical novelty, its diversity of illustrative examples, its practice-focussed orientation and its clear, engaging style. These include leadership scholars concerned with the lack of attention being paid to context in leadership theorizing; organizational scholars wanting to learn how leadership thinking can be brought to bear on the different management functions the book explores; practitioners seeking leadership ideas that are tailored to the context they lead and follow in; and those involved in MBA or leadership development programmes who are looking to combine the personal reflection sought by such programmes with a thoughtful analysis of the context in which their leadership practice takes place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cummings, Stephen

Wilson, Suze

Proctor-Thomson, Sarah

Jackson, Brad

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface Part I: Introduction and Overview. 1. Why does our understanding of leadership need to be revitalised? 2. Utilizing Foucault’s counter-historical approaches. Part II: Modern Understandings of Leadership. 3. The emergence of leadership science ( Carlyle, 1840 to Stogdill, 1948). 4. Leadership ‘science’? (1948 to current day). Part III: Older Understandings of Leadership. 5. The 16th century European understanding of leadership. 6. The Classical Greeks’ understanding of leadership. Part IV Revitalising Our Understanding of Leadership. 7. Changes and troubling continuities in understanding leadership. 8. Conceptual componentry for a new understanding of leadership. References Index

Über Autor(innen)

- Stephen Cummings is Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Victoria, New Zealand

- Brad Jackson is the Head of the School of Government at the University of Victoria, New Zealand

- Dr. Sarah Proctor-Thomson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of Victoria, New Zealand

- Dr. Suze Wilson a Lecturer at the School of Management, Massey University, Australia