The SAGE Handbook of Leadership

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Alan Bryman, David Collinson, Keith Grint, Brad Jackson, Mary Uhl-Bien
SAGE, Feb 17, 2011 - Business & Economics - 592 pages
Leadership pervades every aspect of organizational and social life, and its study has never been more diverse, nor more fertile. With contributions from those who have defined that territory, this volume is not only a key point of reference for researchers, students and practitioners, but also an agenda-setting prospective and retrospective look at the state of leadership in the twenty-first century. It evaluates the domain and stretches it further by considering leadership scholarship from every angle, concluding with an optimistic look at the future of leaders, followers and their place in organizations and society at large.

Each section represents a distinctive slant on leadership:

- Macro perspectives - including strategic leadership, organization theory, charismatic leadership, complexity leadership, and networks.

- Political and philosophical perspectives - including distributed leadership, critical leadership, ethics, the military and cults.

- Psychological perspectives - including personality, leadership style and contingency theories, transformational leadership, exchange relationships, shared leadership, cognition, leadership development, gender, trust, identity and the ′dark side′ of leadership.

- Cultural perspectives - including spirituality, aesthetics, and creativity.

- Contemporary and emergent perspectives - followership, historical methods, virtual leadership, emotions, image, celebrity, and the quest for a general theory of leadership

 

Contents

1 A History of Leadership
3
2 Research Methods in the Study of Leadership
15
Initial Effortsand New Horizons
29
4 Leadership Development
37
Macro and Sociological Perspectives
51
5 Leadership and Organization Theory
53
6 Perspectives on Strategic Leadership
71
7 Charismatic Leadership
86
21 Contingency Theories of Effective Leadership
286
22 Transformational Leadership
299
Recent Research Findings and Prospects for the Future
311
Understanding Interpersonal Dynamics in LeaderFollower Relations
326
A Review and Look Ahead
338
26 Authentic Leadership
352
Leading with Emotional Labor
365
28 The Shadow Side of Leadership
380

8 Gender and Leadership
103
9 A Network Approach to Leader Cognition and Effectiveness
118
A Review and Assessment of Theory and Evidence
136
11Leadership and Organizational Culture
151
12 CrossCultural Leadership Revisited
165
Political and Philosophical Perspectives
179
13 Critical Leadership Studies
181
14 Leadership and Power
195
15 Political Leadership
203
16 Leadership and Cults
215
17 Leadership Ethics
229
18 Philosophy of Leadership
242
19 Aesthetics and Leadership
255
Psychological Perspectives
267
The Usual Suspects and the Suspect Traits
269
29 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Leadership
393
Models and Findings
405
Emerging Perspectives
423
31 Followership and FollowerCentred Approaches
425
32 Hybrid Configurations of Leadership
437
Meditations on a Relational Approach to Leadership
455
34 Complexity Leadership Theory
468
35 Spirituality and Leadership
483
36 Discursive Approaches to Leadership
495
Identities and Identity Work in Leadership
508
38 The Virtual Leader
518
Author Index
531
Subject Index
543
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About the author (2011)

Alan Bryman is Professor of Organizational and Social Research, School of Management, University of Leicester, UK.

David L. Collinson is Professor of Leadership & Organization at Lancaster University Management School.

Brad Jackson is the Head of School of Government and Professor of Public and Community Leadership at Victoria University of Wellington. Prior to this he was the Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership and Co-Director of the New Zealand Leadership Institute at The University of Auckland Business School. Brad has authored five books including A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership and co-edited the Sage Handbook of Leadership and Major Works in Leadership. Brad is the former Vice-Chair of the International Leadership Association, a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and The Leadership Trust.

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