Leadership: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

257 Pages·2007·0.69 MB·English

by  Antonio Marturano

LEADERSHIP
Leadership: The Key Concepts is an indispensable and authoritative guide
to the most crucial ideas, concepts and debates surrounding the study
and exercise of leadership.
Topics covered in this guide include:
• Authority
• Creativity
• Cross-cultural Leadership
• Motivation
• Emotional Intelligence
• Group Dynamics.
Bringing together entries written by a wide range of international
experts, this is an essential desktop resource for managers and leaders
in all kinds of institutions and organizations, as well as students of busi-
ness, sociology and politics.
Antonio Marturano is Research Fellow in the Centre for Leadership
Studies at the University of Exeter. The focus of his research and his
writing is on Leadership ethics.
Jonathan Gosling is the Director of the Centre for Leadership
Studies at the University of Exeter and has written widely on the
subject of Leadership in the public and private spheres.
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LEADERSHIP
The Key Concepts
Edited by
Antonio Marturano
and Jonathan Gosling
First published 2008
by Routledge
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Wars, confl ict, it’s all business. One murder makes a villain.
Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.
(Sir Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, 1947)
Mankind will fi nd no cessation from evil until either the real
philosophers gain political control or else the politicians
become by some miracle real philosophers.
(Plato, Republic, 326d)

CONTENTS
List of contributors ix
List of Key Concepts xxi
Introduction xxiii
KEY CONCEPTS 1
Bibliography 181
Index 217
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CONTRIBUTORS
Scott J. Allen, PhD, is the founder of the Center for Leader Develop-
ment (www.centerforleaderdevelopment.com) – an organization
dedicated to advancing the theory and practice of leadership devel-
opment. Scott co-authored The Little Book of Leadership: 50 Tips
to Unlock Leadership Potential (Moonlight Publishing, 2007) and A
Charge Nurse’s Guide: Navigating the Path of Leadership (Center for
Leader Development, 2005). In addition, Scott serves as a Visiting
Assistant Professor of Business Communications at John Carroll
University and a Presidential Fellow at Case Western Reserve
University.
Mats Alvesson holds a chair in the Department of Business
Administration, Lund University, Sweden. He is one of the world’s
foremost researchers into managerial and leadership processes,
currently concentrating on how specialists secure and enhance their
managerial identity – what he calls ‘identity work’. He is leading a
large-scale Europe-wide study, co-ordinating the efforts of top-rate
researchers in several countries. He has published a large number of
books on a variety of topics, including Understanding Organizational
Culture (Sage, 2002), Postmodernism and Social Research (Open
University Press, 2002) and Knowledge Work and Knowledge-intensive
Firms (Oxford University Press, 2004). He has published a large
number of journal articles and contributed to many handbooks.
He is on the editorial board of Academy of Management Review,
Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Management
Communication Quarterly and Organizational Research Methods and is
a co-editor of Organization.
Jon Aarum Andersen is Professor of Business Administration at
Lillehammer University, Norway. He holds two Master’s degrees
from Norway as well as a PhD from Lund University, Sweden.
The title of his dissertation is ‘Leadership and Effectiveness’. He
was regional manager of a Norwegian consultancy and vice
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