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Organizational Leadership - Fire Services in the United States (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Organizational Leadership - Fire Services in the United States (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: Contemporary Studies in Applied Behavioral Science
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This volume presents an alternative perspective on the problem of
leadership in organizations. Dr. Charles H. Kime argues that while
individuals ultimately take actions we call leadership, structural
and non-structural characteristics of the organization influence
the ability and inclination of organization members to engage in
these actions. Further more, evidence is presented suggesting that
these organizational features become assimilated into the normative
structure of the organization over time and formal and informal
organizational norms shape the ways in which organization members
envision their roles, functions and relationships to the
organization. Once institutionalized, organizational leadership may
be understood as the capacity of the organization to respond to
endogenous and exogenous stimuli, which present themselves as
challenges, opportunities, and threats to the organization. Drawing
upon general systems and complexity and chaos theory, Kime presents
organizational leadership as a normative feature of organizations,
that can help or hinder their negotiation of a complex, nonlinear
environment. Kime tests his formulation on a sample of fire
services organizations in the United States. In addition to
confirming the viability of organizational leadership as a concept,
he explores the empirical relationship of organizational leadership
with organizational size, texture, age, labor management process
and other variables.
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