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In tracing the intellectual roots of business leadership over the last one hundred years, award winning author Gilbert W. Fairholm argues that until recently, spirit and soul have been absent from the major models. After outlining the elements of the five major ideas about leadership, he goes on to define and make operational a new focus that must exist in order to truly understand the leaders' role in relation to workers.

The study begins with scientific management and traces the evolution of leadership ideas through the quality movement, on to values-, culture-, and trust-based leadership models, and concluding with an emphasis on spirit in the workplace. It suggests that the leader in the twenty-first century will need to embrace a leadership style based on the main premise of each model along with a focus on ethics, community, service, and spirituality.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. xiii)
• Part I Leadership as Management(p. 1)
• 1 Evolution of the Manager as Leader(p. 3)
• 2 Purposes of Management(p. 17)
• Part II Leadership Excellence(p. 23)
• 3 Leadership as Excellent Management(p. 25)
• 4 Defining Quality Operationally(p. 31)
• 5 Skills Needed for Leadership Excellence(p. 39)
• Part III Values Leadership(p. 47)
• 6 Overview of Past Leadership Theories(p. 49)
• 7 Defining Values-Based Leadership(p. 55)
• 8 Principles of Values-Based Leadership Theory(p. 61)
• 9 The Values-Based Leadership Model(p. 67)
• Part IV Trust Leadership(p. 73)
• 10 Unified Cultures(p. 75)
• 11 Defining Culture(p. 81)
• 12 Shaping Culture(p. 87)
• 13 The Leadership of Trust(p. 91)
• 14 Leadership and Multiculturalism(p. 103)
• Part V The Spiritual Heart of Leadership(p. 109)
• 15 The Place of Spirit in Our Work Lives(p. 111)
• 16 Defining Spiritual Leadership(p. 117)
• 17 Problems with the Current Situation(p. 123)
• 18 Understanding Spiritual Leadership at Work(p. 129)
• 19 Application of Spiritual Leadership at Work(p. 137)
• 20 Applying Spiritual Leadership(p. 143)
• Bibliography(p. 155)
• Index(p. 163)
• About the Author(p. 168)

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CHOICE Review

Fairholm's latest book builds nicely on his earlier work on spirituality and leadership (Leadership and the Culture of Trust, CH, Mar'95; Capturing the Heart of Leadership, CH, Dec'97). The unique approach of this volume is its focus on the evolution of theories and practices of management, showing that the emerging thinking on this topic incorporates spirituality. The author begins the book by examining early management theories at the turn of the century such as scientific management and behavioral science approaches. He continues with a discussion of the quality movement and then values leadership. Referring to work in his earlier books, the author then addresses current approaches for building cultures of trust in organizations. For each approach to management discussed, Fairholm identifies its contributions and failures. The last section of the book focuses on the need for spirituality in the workplace and in organizations and explores what leaders might do to incorporate this new dimension into their leadership style. More theoretical than applied, this book is appropriate for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students. J. A. Neal; University of New Haven

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GILBERT W. FAIRHOLM is Emeritus Professor, Graduate Program at Virginia Commonwealth University, Adjunct Associate Professor of Leadership at the University of Richmond, and Visiting Professor at Hampden-Sydney College. In addition to his academic appointments, he has over twenty years of management experience in state and local government. His previous award winning books include Capturing the Heart of Leadership (1997) and Leadership and the Culture of Trust (1994) published by Praeger Publishers.