Leadership Dynamics

"Leadership Dynamics" is for leaders and aspiring leaders who want to learn more about the practicalities of the leader-follower relationship and the concepts of effective leadership. Emphasizing the transactional view of leadership as a two-way process of influence, it covers recent research findings (with more than 300 citations) and highlights such crucial topics as as attaining and maintaining the leader role and making needed changes.

Contents

Introduction

Preface

1. Leadership: What Is it?

Leadership Is an Influence Process

Background

Varieties of Leadership

Leadership and the Leader

Leaders and Followers

The Leader-Follower Transaction

Sharing Leadership Activities

Responsibility and Accountability

Summary

2. Ways of Approaching Leadership

The Person and/or the Times?

Traits and Leader Functions

The Description of Leader Behavior

Leader Style

The Situational Approach

Contingency Models

The Transactional Approach

Idiosyncrasy Credit: Earned Status and Innovation

Summary

3. Leader Authority and Followership

Authority and Legitimacy among Followers

The Perception of Status and Credibility

Becoming and Staying a Leader

Effects of Appointed or Elected Leadership

Effects of Followers' Behavior on Leader Behavior

Summary

4. Social Exchange in Leadership

Basic Concepts of Social Exchange

What Makes for a "Fair Exchange" in Leadership?

Leadership as a Transaction

System Progress and Leader-Follower Team Effectiveness

Distributive Justice and Equity

Leader-Follower Roles and Power

Summary

5. Leadership Functions in Organizations

Leadership Roles and Group Maintenance

Resources and Powers in Management and Administration

Defining Group Functions and Goals Adaptively

The Leader's Task and Human Relations Functions

Participative Leadership

Job Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction

Job Enrichment and Management by Objectives

Summary

6. Leadership Effectiveness

Effectiveness for What?

Identifying Leadership Effectiveness

Interpersonal Qualities in Leadership Effectiveness

Enablement, Restraint, and Autocratic Leadership

Foresight and Planning

Leader Training and the Identification of Effective and Ineffective Leaders

Maintaining the Leader Role

Summary

7. Leadership and Social Change

Making Needed Changes

Organizational and Institutional Responses to Change

Organizational Renewal

Group Dynamics and Change

Charismatic Leaders

Organizational Structure, Control, and Limits to Innovation

Summary

8. Leadership Dynamics: A Summing Up

How the Transactional Approach Is Different

Variations on Leader Competence

Variations on Leader Style

Variations on Leadership Effectiveness

Parting Thoughts

Notes

Works Cited

Name Index

Subject Index