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Responsibly led boards of directors make it possible for modern
companies to survive and prosper under conditions of change.
Despite the importance of boards of directors, their activities are
often lionised or vilified by shareholders and stakeholders which
obscures how boards enact responsible leadership. Responsible
Leadership in Corporate Governance: An Integrative Approach
introduces an integrative model of responsible leadership in
governance that positions the board as a nexus of all corporate
participants. In this model, responsibly led boards seek to make
decisions in the best interests of the modern company as an entity
that operates in a dynamic business environment. This book provides
a timely focus on in-depth cases of board led responsible
leadership. Examining boards of directors in listed companies,
state-owned enterprises, and private companies, the book connects
insights from corporate governance and leadership to behaviours
that affect boards' relationships with shareholders and
stakeholders. In addition, these insights underscore key
requirements and challenges of responsible leadership in
governance: from the importance of purpose and the crucial role of
value creation to the difficulties of ownership transition and
accountability. Far-sighted and experienced-based, this book will
not only help students connect to real world situations but also
will benefit those that interact with and support boards of
directors.
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 tho
Business celebrities such as Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Rupert
Murdoch are among the most widely recognised, admired and sometimes
even vilified individuals in the world. Like their celebrity peers
from the entertainment, sports, arts and political worlds, business
celebrities exert an influence that is pervasive, but difficult to
assess, evaluate and explain. Business celebrities have been around
for as long as big business itself, but this is the first book to
provide a systematic exploration of how they are constructed and
why they exist. Business celebrities include entrepreneurs, CEOs,
and management gurus. The book argues that these individuals are
not self-made, but rather are created by a process of widespread
media exposure to the point that their actions, personalities and
even private lives function symbolically to represent significant
dynamics and tensions prevalent in the contemporary business
environment. Demystifying Business Celebrity raises questions about
the impact and significance of the production of celebrity upon our
understanding of, and our ability to promote the practice of
leadership in an enlightened manner. The book will prove a useful
addition to the enlightened business student's bookshelf and will
be informative reading for all those with an interest in business
and management.
'This stunning book makes sense out of the enigma of Management Gurus..' - Educational Book Review
'Jackson offers insightful accounts of recent management history ... interesting and original critical readings for advanced students in management studies.' - Scandinvian Journal of Management
Why do just a few management ideas become hugely popular, while
many others remain virtually ignored? What distinguishes a
management guru from just another consultant? Why are we such
dedicated followers of management fashion? Since the 1980s, popular
management thinkers, or management gurus, have promoted a number of
performance improvement programmes or management fashions that have
greatly influenced both the everyday conduct of organizational life
and the preoccupations of academic researchers.;This book provides
a rhetorical critique of the management guru and management fashion
phenomenon with a view to building on the important theoretical
progress that has recently been made by a small, but growing, band
of management researchers. Fantasy theme analysis, a
dramatistically-based method of rhetorical criticism, is conducted
on three of the most important management fashions to have emerged
during the 1990s: the re-engineering movement promoted by Michael
Hammer and James Champy; the effectiveness movement led by Stephen
Covey; and the learning organization movement inspired by Peter
Senge and his colleagues.; In addition to its rhetorical and
empirical contributions, this boo
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.
This Element deals with leadership and governance of corporations
from the point of view of the board. We expand our understanding of
board leadership by focusing on the modern company as a legal
person comprised of a capital fund and the relationships among
directors, shareholders, management and stakeholders. We propose a
model which integrates insights from the fields of leadership and
corporate governance and establishes a theoretical link illustrated
by empirical findings in three intersections: team leadership on
the board, the chair's leadership of the board, and strategic
leadership by the board. We maintain this integrative model
provides a powerful means to further an understanding of the board
as the nexus of leadership and governance. We close this Element by
identifying the new research directions that our integrative model
opens up. We also identify the implications for practice for those
who either serve on boards or provide support to them.
An engaging guide through the cacophony of competing perspectives
and models of leadership, the new edition includes an expanded
discussion of contemporary topics like followership, gender,
ethics, authenticity, and leadership and the arts, set against the
backdrop of the global financial crisis. Conceived by Chris Grey as
an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very
Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core
area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a
critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates
in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Suitable for
students of leadership, professionals working in organizations and
anyone curious about the workings of leadership.
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
An engaging guide through the cacophony of competing perspectives
and models of leadership, the new edition includes an expanded
discussion of contemporary topics like followership, gender,
ethics, authenticity, and leadership and the arts, set against the
backdrop of the global financial crisis. Conceived by Chris Grey as
an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very
Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core
area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a
critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates
in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Suitable for
students of leadership, professionals working in organizations and
anyone curious about the workings of leadership.
Business celebrities such as Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Rupert
Murdoch are among the most widely recognised, admired and sometimes
even vilified individuals in the world. Like their celebrity peers
from the entertainment, sports, arts and political worlds, business
celebrities exert an influence that is pervasive, but difficult to
assess, evaluate and explain. Business celebrities have been around
for as long as big business itself, but this is the first book to
provide a systematic exploration of how they are constructed and
why they exist. Business celebrities include entrepreneurs, CEOs,
and management gurus. The book argues that these individuals are
not self-made, but rather are created by a process of widespread
media exposure to the point that their actions, personalities and
even private lives function symbolically to represent significant
dynamics and tensions prevalent in the contemporary business
environment. Demystifying Business Celebrity raises questions about
the impact and significance of the production of celebrity upon our
understanding of, and our ability to promote the practice of
leadership in an enlightened manner. The book will prove a useful
addition to the enlightened business student's bookshelf and will
be informative reading for all those with an interest in business
and management.
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