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This text includes 50 short chapters from the most prominent international scholars of leadership who provide students with invaluable overviews, insights, and perspectives on leadership in today's organizations. The book has a central organizing framework outlining the components of leadership (which is presented in the Introduction). It incorporates a new section on shared responsibility for leadership, new chapters on the external environment and on dysfunctional or unethical leadership behavior, a new section on inclusion, together with coverage of all the classic leadership theories, with updated chapters covering vision, mission, and structure that enhance the relevance of these theories in today's organizational context.

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• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• Introduction
• Part I The Environment of New Era Organizations
• 1 Inevitable Strategies
• 2 Globalization
• 3 Creating the Environmentally Aware Organization
• 4 How to Make Sense of Weak Signals
• 5 Wikinomics: The Art and Science of Peer Production
• Part II Leadership Concepts and Theories
• 6 Leadership (Excerpts)
• 8 Servant Leadership
• 7 The Transformational Model of Leadership
• 9 Charismatic Theory
• 10 Contingency Theories of Leadership
• 11 Strategic Leadership: Top Management Teams
• Part III Shared Responsibility for Leadership
• 12 All Those Years Ago: The Historical Underpinnings of Shared Leadership
• 13 Followership
• 14 Empowerment
• 15 Leadership and the Problem of Bogus Empowerment
• 16 Leading Teams: Imperatives for Leaders
• 17 E-Leadership
• 18 Leadership in the 21st Century
• Part IV Impetus for Organizational Leadership
• 19 What Do We Know About Vision?
• 20 Is Your Vision Consistent? A Method for Checking, Based On Scenario Concepts
• 21 The Mission Statement: A Corporate Reporting Tool With a Past, Present, and Future
• 22 Do Firms Practice What They Preach? The Relationship Between Missions Statements and Stakeholder Management
• 23 What is the Right Organization Design?
• Part V Culture: The Organization's Dna
• 24 Influencing Organization Culture
• 25 The Learning Culture and the Learning Leader
• 26 Moral Leadership and Business Ethics
• 27 Characteristics of Ethical Business Cultures
• 28 Being Ethical When the Boss is Not
• 29 Toxic Leaders: They're Plentiful
• 30 Making Meaning of Being Bad
• 31 Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership
• Part VI Inclusion
• 32 Unlocking the Benefits of Diversity: All-Inclusive Multiculturalism and Positive Organizational Change
• 33 Goal Interdependence for Working Across Cultural Boundaries: Chinese Employees With Foreign Managers
• 34 Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership
• 35 'Just Because You Can Get a Wheelchair in the Building Doesn't Mean That You Can Still Participate': Barriers to the Career Advancement of Disabled Professionals
• 36 Support a Diverse Workforce: What Type of Support Is Most Meaningful for Lesbian and Gay Employees?
• 37 The Multigenerational Workforce: Opportunity for Competitive Success
• 38 Respectful Pluralism at Work
• Part VII Capacity Building
• 39 Adaptive Work
• 40 Organizational Change Practices
• 41 Collaborating for Systemic Change
• 42 Leading Through Conflict: The Mediator
• 43 Illuminating a Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenge: When Identity Groups Collide
• 44 Beyond Empowerment: A Company of Citizens
• 45 The Tenets of the Democratic Enterprise
• 46 The Path to Democracy and Sharing
• Part VIII New Responsibilities of Organizational Leadership: Social Activism
• 47 Leading Corporate Citizenship
• 48 A New Kind of Company: B Corporations Worry About Stakeholders Not Just Shareholders
• 49 Ideologically Motivated Activism: How Activist Groups Influence Corporate Social Change Activities
• 50 Missionary Leadership: Harnessing the Power of the Mission
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Author

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This volume provides comprehensive views of leadership from a number of notable authors, with a key focus on determining what is needed in terms of leadership for the rapidly changing business landscape. Technology, political and economic systems, and societal demands are changing at unprecedented rates, and organizations must adapt to be competitive and survive. The authors report that the right kind of leadership must be available to develop an organization's human capacity, structure, and functions in order to effectively operate in the turbulent business environment of tomorrow, balancing the organization's purpose with the needs of other institutions and social responsibility. Despite multiple authorship, the book's overall presentation is one of coherence, continuity, and excellent organization. Valuable references add to the utility of this work for the student. Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. L. J. Cumbo; Emory and Henry College