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This course teaches on theory, research, and practice from the field of leadership and social influence and draws on different disciplines e.g. social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, management, social theory. It aims to dispel myths around leadership and support students to critically reflect and evaluate the socio-cultural, historical, psychological, political forces that underpin processes of leadership and followership across different organisational and socio-cultural contexts. Topics covered will include, social identity, stereotypes, communication, wisdom, ethics, emotions, embodied leadership, social change, feminist and indigenous leadership, etc.
This book is concerned with the connotation of leadership. It examines the historical work around leadership as well as the monumental greats of well-known politicians. It also examines the recent research work and issues of context, contingency, transaction, and the popular transformational leadership. Then the book proceeds to give an overview of social identity and self‐categorization, comprehensively leading the way for the new theory and stance on leadership, identity (social and group), power, influence, and followership. The book finally concludes with the importance of persuading the reader of the credibility and coherence of an identity of leadership approach.
This book presents key concepts, contemporary issues, and debates in the field of leadership studies. Beginning with an examination of the concepts of leading, leadership, and leadership studies, the book then proceeds to the study of classical theories of leadership, leading in context, and contemporary perspectives in the field. Case studies selected ranges from political leaders such as Tony Blair to business leaders such as Steve Jobs, and from leadership in the arts to leadership in gang culture. A distinguishing feature is analysis of how leadership is represented in film and TV, including The Dark Knight, Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games and Grey's Anatomy.
This book seeks to draw together a range of perspectives on leadership that should enable the reader to reflect more critically on their experience of leadership theory, development, and practice. It explores how theoretical models and views of leadership have evolved over time; how leadership can be investigated from individual, organizational, and societal perspectives; and perennial dilemmas and emerging approaches in Leadership Studies. Positioning its discussion within a multidisciplinary framework that touches on management, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, history, literature, and politics, this book examines and critiques the common assumptions that inform the ways in which leaders and leadership are recognized, rewarded, and developed.
This book underlines the importance of developing a poly-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding of the concept of practical wisdom in today’s complex environment. It collects five essays from the indigenous perspective, four essays from the Asian perspective, and three essays from the Middle-Eastern perspective. This book offers significant insight into the implications of the non-Western traditions of wisdom and how such an understanding of the non-Western traditions can help us better and more critically understand and appropriately address new multi-faceted complex emerging phenomena. This book fills an important gap in understanding wisdom and how it is applied in a poly-cultural world.
This book presents ideas, resources, practices, and examples meant to help readers lead adaptive work in whatever context you work. The ideas are presented in the chapter “The Theory Behind the Practice”. The resources include tools, lists, diagrams, reflections, exercises, and charts. The practices are concrete steps you can take to move a change initiative forward. The examples are drawn from the stories of people such as individuals in organizations, communities, and societies who face difficult challenges and strive to create positive, enduring change. By reading this book, readers will learn how to diagnose, mobilize, reflect, connect, and grow.
This book provides a critical overview of the workings of leadership. It presents leader-centered perspectives on leadership, surveys work done by the followers, brings culture into analysis, describes some of the growing body of work that takes an explicitly critical stance against mainstream leadership research, look at a series of related efforts to rehabilitate and invigorate leadership in response to widespread concerns brought into dramatic relief by a number of corporate scandals and financial crises that erupted in the first part of the century, and look at what is being done to develop more and better leaders throughout the world.
This book confronts the orthodoxy that transformational leadership is a good thing, and that leaders should have much more power than followers to decide what needs to be done, by illustrating how such approaches can encourage narcissism, megalomania and poor decision-making on the part of leaders, at great expense to those organizations they serve. It uses a number of case studies to illustrate the perils of transformational leadership, from the Jonestown tragedy in 1978 when over 900 people were either murdered or committed suicide at the urging of their leader, to an analysis of how banking executives tried to explain away their role in the 2008 financial crisis.
This book deals mainly with substantive issues concerning the world of work. Part One provides background material for the study of work, including overview of work in past societies and ways to study work in contemporary society. Part Two deals with our work roles and how these influence our daily lives. Part Three deals with technology and organization of work. Part Four deals with the occupational roles that we hold and with the unique sets of skills that are needed to perform these roles. Part Five focuses on societal-level consequences of the changing nature of work.
This book introduces the lived experiences of labour in a wide range of occupations and work settings. The chapters of this book cover professional employees such as engineers and lawyers, service workers such as bar hostesses, domestic maids and hotel workers, and industrial workers in a variety of factories. The mosaic of human faces, organizational dynamics and workers' voices presented in the book reflect the complexity of changes and challenges taking place in the Chinese workplace today. This book collects 12 essays. Part One focuses on remaking class and community. Part Two deals with gendering service work. Part Three deals with new professions and knowledge workers.
This book elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. Part One gives an introduction to organized impermanence. The following parts focuses on attending, interpretation, action, learning and change respectively. The seeming permanence of organizations conceals an endless cycle of interruptions, recoveries, and reorganizing. This fundamental cycle is explored in a series of essays that focus on ways in which people organize their attention, interpretations, actions, and learning in order to cope with impermanence. These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves.
This book focuses on the proliferation of labors, both paid and unpaid, that sustains the day-to-day work that individuals and societies require to survive and flourish. It examines the social construction of commodified intimacies, or, more precisely, the intersections of money and intimacy in everyday life, by looking at the ways that intimacy as a material, affective, psychological, and embodied state characterizes such labors. Part One focuses on remaking the intimate from the perspectives of technology and globalization. Part Two discusses creating intimate boundaries from the perspectives of culture and social relations. Part Three deals with organizing intimate labor from the perspectives of politics and mobilization.
This book explores solutions to business problems from a psychological perspective. The recurring theme in this book is that business is about people and that a good understanding of psychology can help us to build more fulfilling and successful lives at work. The introductory chapter looks at how work psychology has developed at the interface between the traditional fields of psychology and management. Part One focuses on the day-to-day business of managing relationships and understanding people in the modern workplace. Part Two considers how to use psychological knowledge to survive the challenges of the modern workplace and improve our work lives. Part Three introduces exciting new developments in work psychology.
This book is aimed at understanding how particular assumptions about the body have shaped the area of organization studies, as part of a wider tradition of western knowledge and rationality, and as part of the development of social theory. It argues that the body is an absent presence in organizational theory, that the broader intellectual and historical context of which organization studies is a part, is one in which a culture of dissection predominates, and that organization theory is characterized by being part of this culture of dissection and by the objectified disembodiment of the individual.
This book offers a new critical approach to contemporary organizational analysis. It explores the modern heritage of philosophy and sociology from which classical theories of organization and bureaucracy have arisen, and discusses critical counter-movements to the consequences of a scientific organization sociology and to an expanding managerial orientation in organizational analysis. It also discusses the turn of postmodernism after the apparent failure of modern criticism, and the rise of new theoretical approaches to organizational analysis, explores a return to practice, analyses these developments, and reflects on possibilities for organizational and social revitalization.
This book provides an overview of the development of organization theory from the perspective of general theoretical traditions. The theory traditions covered are classical organization theory, cultural modern theory, rational modern theory, interpretative theory, critical theory, and postmodern theory. This book adopts sociological paradigms as an epistemological framework. The sociological paradigms in historical context and its impact is located on the field of Organization Theory. This book discusses how the work influenced the emergence and shape of Critical Management Studies as a distinct disciplinary field while somehow retaining its skeptical stance.
