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What are the main characteristics of effective leadership? How can we understand leadership today?
This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary book provides readers with a complete introduction to the essentials of leadership. Included here are accessible and insightful entries on what leadership is, how it is practiced and the relevant strengths and pitfalls. The book provides a one stop introductory guide to one of the most central and contested concepts in the social sciences.
An invaluable reference tool, it contains consistent, concise and authoritative entries on: The Eight Questions of Leadership; The Five Minds of the Manager; Leadership and Psychology; Developmental Approaches to Leadership; Functional Leadership; Leadership Practice
This book is an indispensable guide to the central concepts of leadership for professionals and students alike.
Avoiding Leadership and Involved Leadership
Avoiding Leadership and Involved Leadership
The extent of hands-on leader engagement in all aspects of the organization can vary from non-existent or minimal to ‘having a finger in every pie’.
This dichotomy between high and low avoiding styles has been defined by Thomas and Kilmann (1974) within their well-known Conflict Mode Instrument – also discussed in connection with Accommodating Leadership and Competitive Leadership, and with Compromising Leadership and Cooperative Leadership. Of the five possible ways of approaching a situation of disagreement, usually two or three modes of operating are popular with each leader or manager, with one or two being low preferences, and possibly one or two moderate preferences. The preferences reflected in the scores show the following:
- How collaborative a leader may ...
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