Leading organizations : perspectives for a new era / Gill Robinson Hickman, editor
Imprint
Los Angeles : Sage, c2010
Edition
2nd ed
Descript
xii, 683 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
CONTENT
The environment of new era organizations : Inevitable strategies ; Globalization ; Creating the environmentally aware organization ; How to make sense of weak signals ; Wikinomics: the art and science of peer production -- Leadership concepts and theories : Leadership (excerpts) ; The transformational model of leadership ; Servant leadership ; Charismatic theory ; Contingency theories of leadership ; Strategic leadership: top management teams -- Shared responsibility for leadership: All those years ago: the historical underpinnings of shared leadership ; Followership ; Empowerment ; Leadership and the problem of bogus empowerment ; Leading teams: imperatives for leaders ; E-leadership ; Leadership in the 21st century -- Impetus for organizational leadership : What do we know about vision? ; Is your vision consistent? a method for checking, based on scenario concepts ; The mission statement: a corporate reporting tool with a past, present, and future ; Do firms practice what they preach? The relationship between mission statements and stakeholder management ; What is the right organization design? -- Culture: the organization's DNA : Influencing organization culture ; The learning culture and the learning leader ; Moral leadership and business ethics ; Characteristics of ethical business cultures ; Being ethical when the boss is not ; Toxic leaders: they're plentiful ; Making meaning of being bad ; Understanding ethical failures in leadership -- Inclusion : Unlocking the benefits of diversity: all-inclusive multiculturalism and positive organizational change ; Goal interdependence for working across cultural boundaries: Chinese employees with foreign managers ; Women and the labyrinth of leadership ; "Just because you can get a wheelchair in the building doesn't necessarily mean that you can still participate": Barriers to the career advancement of disabled professional ; Supporting a diverse workforce: what type of support is most meaningful for lesbian and gay employees ; The multigenerational workforce: opportunity for competitive success ; Respectful pluralism at work -- Capacity building : Adaptive work ; Organizational change practices ; Collaborating for systemic change ; Leading through conflict: the mediator ; Illuminating a cross-cultural leadership challenge: when identity groups collide ; Beyond empowerment: building a company of citizens ; The tenets of the democratic enterprise ; The path of democracy and sharing -- New responsibilities of organizational leadership social activism : Leading corporate citizenship ; A new kind of company: B corporations worry about stakeholders, not just shareholders ; Ideologically motivated activism: how activist groups influence corporate social change activities ; Missionary leadership: harnessing the power of the mission