Leadership Dynamics
A Practical Guide to Effective Relationships
Published on 19. April 1984
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
978-0-02-914830-3 (ISBN)
Description
Leadership Dynamics is for leaders and aspiring leaders who want to learn more about the practicalities of the leader-follower relationship and the concepts of effective leadership. Emphasizing the transactional view of leadership as a two-way process of influence, it covers recent research findings (with more than 300 citations) and highlights such crucial topics as attaining and maintaining the leader role and making needed changes.
Reviews / Votes
Personnel Psychology ...engagingly written with many references to real world issues. Yet, very extensive citations to research and theory clearly demonstrate the substance behind the thesis...excellent chapter summaries help greatly to organize the material. Academy of Management Review ...offers worthwhile insights into a fuller understanding of the leadership process. George C. Homans Harvard University A very good and wise book, presenting in brief compass all of the principal results of research in the field of leaders and leadership, and using good sense and knowledge of the world in evaluating these results. It packs a lot of value. Irving L. Janis Yale University Leadership Dynamics deserves a wide audience, especially among men and women in leadership roles and those who aspire to such roles. Unlike glib how-to-do-it books, this one presents a comprehensive review of cogent research in social psychology and related behavioral sciences. M. Brewster Smith University of California, Santa Cruz ...a fine book -- a remarkably successful integration of the literature and guide to it...I come away from it feeling a good deal better about what we have learned about leadership. Wilbert J. McKeachie University of Michigan One of the nicest blends of science and practice that I've seen. Hollander takes the empirical data and theoretical positions of social psychology and translates them into practical advice to those involved with leadership.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
377 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-02-914830-3 (9780029148303)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Edwin P. Hollander has written extensively on leadership and related topics in social psychology. He is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has also served as Provost of Social Sciences. A Columbia Ph.D., he began his leadership research while on duty as a navel aviation psychologist, and has taught at Carnegie-Mellon, Washington (St. Louis), and American universities, with visiting appointments at Istanbul, Wisconsin, Harvard, and Oxford universities. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Hollander is former president of its Division of General Psychology.
Content
Contents
Introduction
Preface
1. Leadership: What Is it?
Leadership Is an Influence Process
Background
Varieties of Leadership
Leadership and the Leader
Leaders and Followers
The Leader-Follower Transaction
Sharing Leadership Activities
Responsibility and Accountability
Summary
2. Ways of Approaching Leadership
The Person and/or the Times?
Traits and Leader Functions
The Description of Leader Behavior
Leader Style
The Situational Approach
Contingency Models
The Transactional Approach
Idiosyncrasy Credit: Earned Status and Innovation
Summary
3. Leader Authority and Followership
Authority and Legitimacy among Followers
The Perception of Status and Credibility
Becoming and Staying a Leader
Effects of Appointed or Elected Leadership
Effects of Followers' Behavior on Leader Behavior
Summary
4. Social Exchange in Leadership
Basic Concepts of Social Exchange
What Makes for a "Fair Exchange" in Leadership?
Leadership as a Transaction
System Progress and Leader-Follower Team Effectiveness
Distributive Justice and Equity
Leader-Follower Roles and Power
Summary
5. Leadership Functions in Organizations
Leadership Roles and Group Maintenance
Resources and Powers in Management and Administration
Defining Group Functions and Goals Adaptively
The Leader's Task and Human Relations Functions
Participative Leadership
Job Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
Job Enrichment and Management by Objectives
Summary
6. Leadership Effectiveness
Effectiveness for What?
Identifying Leadership Effectiveness
Interpersonal Qualities in Leadership Effectiveness
Enablement, Restraint, and Autocratic Leadership
Foresight and Planning
Leader Training and the Identification of Effective and Ineffective Leaders
Maintaining the Leader Role
Summary
7. Leadership and Social Change
Making Needed Changes
Organizational and Institutional Responses to Change
Organizational Renewal
Group Dynamics and Change
Charismatic Leaders
Organizational Structure, Control, and Limits to Innovation
Summary
8. Leadership Dynamics: A Summing Up
How the Transactional Approach Is Different
Variations on Leader Competence
Variations on Leader Style
Variations on Leadership Effectiveness
Parting Thoughts
Notes
Works Cited
Name Index
Subject Index
Introduction
Preface
1. Leadership: What Is it?
Leadership Is an Influence Process
Background
Varieties of Leadership
Leadership and the Leader
Leaders and Followers
The Leader-Follower Transaction
Sharing Leadership Activities
Responsibility and Accountability
Summary
2. Ways of Approaching Leadership
The Person and/or the Times?
Traits and Leader Functions
The Description of Leader Behavior
Leader Style
The Situational Approach
Contingency Models
The Transactional Approach
Idiosyncrasy Credit: Earned Status and Innovation
Summary
3. Leader Authority and Followership
Authority and Legitimacy among Followers
The Perception of Status and Credibility
Becoming and Staying a Leader
Effects of Appointed or Elected Leadership
Effects of Followers' Behavior on Leader Behavior
Summary
4. Social Exchange in Leadership
Basic Concepts of Social Exchange
What Makes for a "Fair Exchange" in Leadership?
Leadership as a Transaction
System Progress and Leader-Follower Team Effectiveness
Distributive Justice and Equity
Leader-Follower Roles and Power
Summary
5. Leadership Functions in Organizations
Leadership Roles and Group Maintenance
Resources and Powers in Management and Administration
Defining Group Functions and Goals Adaptively
The Leader's Task and Human Relations Functions
Participative Leadership
Job Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
Job Enrichment and Management by Objectives
Summary
6. Leadership Effectiveness
Effectiveness for What?
Identifying Leadership Effectiveness
Interpersonal Qualities in Leadership Effectiveness
Enablement, Restraint, and Autocratic Leadership
Foresight and Planning
Leader Training and the Identification of Effective and Ineffective Leaders
Maintaining the Leader Role
Summary
7. Leadership and Social Change
Making Needed Changes
Organizational and Institutional Responses to Change
Organizational Renewal
Group Dynamics and Change
Charismatic Leaders
Organizational Structure, Control, and Limits to Innovation
Summary
8. Leadership Dynamics: A Summing Up
How the Transactional Approach Is Different
Variations on Leader Competence
Variations on Leader Style
Variations on Leadership Effectiveness
Parting Thoughts
Notes
Works Cited
Name Index
Subject Index