Leadership and Neuroscience

With the rise of organizational neuroscience as a discipline, leadership has been and will continue to be a fruitful area for advancing research and practice. Leadership is such an important topic because it ultimately endeavors to improve organizational effectiveness while also enhancing employee development and well-being. Neuroscience, with its new insights and tools, has the potential to advance both the understanding and the practice of leadership. Much of the early work related to leadership has come from basic science research in diverse academic fields. [Page 866]More recently, there has been a movement toward multidisciplinary, evidence-based research in applied leadership settings, and this trend is expected to continue. Along these lines, there are four general topics that neuroscience is well suited to address from both a ...