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A volume in Leadership Horizons Series Editor Mary Uhl-Bien,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Founding Editor James R. Meindl,
State University of New York at Buffalo This book introduces
leadership and organizational scholars to the potential of
complexity science for broadening leadership study beyond its
traditional focus on leaders' actions and influence, to a
consideration of leadership as a broader, dynamically and
interactive organizing process. The book offers a primer on
complexity science and its applications to organization studies,
and compares the logics of complexity science with those underlying
traditional leadership approaches. It describes methodological
approaches for studying leadership from a complexity perspective,
and offers examples of applications of complexity science to
leadership theory. Chapters are written by top scholars in
complexity and leadership theory.
The majority of leadership theories and studies have tended to
emphasize the personal background, personality traits, perceptions,
and actions of leaders. From this perspective, the followers have
been viewed as recipients or moderators of the leader's influence,
and as vehicles for the actualization of the leader's vision,
mission or goals. One of the major challengers of this dominant
view was the late James R. Meindl. As an alternative to the
leader-centric perspective on leadership, Meindl offered a
follower-centric approach that views both leadership and its
consequences as largely constructed by followers and hence
influenced by followers' cognitive processes and inter-follower
social influence processes. As a tribute to Jim Meindl and his
contributions to the field of leadership studies, Information Age
Publishing is releasing a book on follower-centered approaches to
leadership. The book covers a wide variety of perspectives that
acknowledge the active roles of followers in the leadership
process. These include the psychoanalytical perspective, leadership
categorization theory, social identity theory, the shared
leadership approach, attribution of charisma through social
networks, the role of the media in constructing images of the
leader, the social construction of followership, vision
implementation by followers and a post modern approach to
followership. It is hoped that the volume will provoke readers to
reflect upon and extend Jim Meindl's seminal work on followership.
Leaders and followers live in a relational world-a world in which
leadership occurs in complex webs of relationships and dynamically
changing contexts. Despite this, our theories of leadership are
grounded in assumptions of individuality and linear causality. If
we are to advance understandings of leadership that have more
relevance to the world of practice, we need to embed issues of
relationality into leadership studies. This volume addresses this
issue by bringing together, for the first time, a set of prominent
scholars from different paradigmatic and disciplinary perspectives
to engage in dialogue regarding how to meet the challenges of
relationality in leadership research and practice. Included are
cutting edge thinking, heated debate, and passionate perspectives
on the issues at hand. The chapters reveal the varied and nuanced
treatments of relationality that come from authors' alternative
paradigmatic (entity, constructionist, critical) views. Dialogue
scholars-reacting to the chapters-engage in spirited debate
regarding the commensurability (or incommensurability) of the
paradigmatic approaches. The editors bring the dialogue together
with introductory and concluding chapters that offer a framework
for comparing and situating the competing assumptions and
perspectives spanning the relational leadership landscape. Using
paradigm interplay they unpack assumptions, and lay out a roadmap
for relational leadership research. A key takeaway is that
advancing relational leadership research requires multiple
paradigmatic perspectives, and scholars who are conversant in the
assumptions brought by these perspectives. The book is aimed at
those who feel that much of current leadership thinking is missing
the boat in today's complex, relational world. It provides an
essential resource for all leadership scholars and practitioners
curious about the nature of research on leadership, both those with
much research exposure and those new to the field.
The majority of leadership theories and studies have tended to
emphasize the personal background, personality traits, perceptions,
and actions of leaders. From this perspective, the followers have
been viewed as recipients or moderators of the leader's influence,
and as vehicles for the actualization of the leader's vision,
mission or goals. One of the major challengers of this dominant
view was the late James R. Meindl. As an alternative to the
leader-centric perspective on leadership, Meindl offered a
follower-centric approach that views both leadership and its
consequences as largely constructed by followers and hence
influenced by followers' cognitive processes and inter-follower
social influence processes. As a tribute to Jim Meindl and his
contributions to the field of leadership studies, Information Age
Publishing is releasing a book on follower-centered approaches to
leadership. The book covers a wide variety of perspectives that
acknowledge the active roles of followers in the leadership
process. These include the psychoanalytical perspective, leadership
categorization theory, social identity theory, the shared
leadership approach, attribution of charisma through social
networks, the role of the media in constructing images of the
leader, the social construction of followership, vision
implementation by followers and a post modern approach to
followership. It is hoped that the volume will provoke readers to
reflect upon and extend Jim Meindl's seminal work on followership.
A volume in Leadership Horizons Series Editor Mary Uhl-Bien,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Founding Editor James R. Meindl,
State University of New York at Buffalo This book introduces
leadership and organizational scholars to the potential of
complexity science for broadening leadership study beyond its
traditional focus on leaders' actions and influence, to a
consideration of leadership as a broader, dynamically and
interactive organizing process. The book offers a primer on
complexity science and its applications to organization studies,
and compares the logics of complexity science with those underlying
traditional leadership approaches. It describes methodological
approaches for studying leadership from a complexity perspective,
and offers examples of applications of complexity science to
leadership theory. Chapters are written by top scholars in
complexity and leadership theory.
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
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