Dennis Tourish (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership

A Critical Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Through incisive critical argument and illustrative case studies this book offers a rare critical perspective on transformational leadership theory and presents an alternative approach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780415564281
• ISBN-10: 041556428X
• Artikelnr.: 36197345

Autorenporträt

Dennis Tourish is a Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published seven previous books on leadership and organizational communication and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Human Relations and Management Communication Quarterly, where he was previously a co-editor. He is a Fellow of the Leadership Trust Foundation and a co-editor of the journal Leadership.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: LEADERSHIP AGENCY UNRAVELLED 1. Introduction: Why the dark side?
Why now? 2. Transformational leadership: The dynamics of excessive leader
agency 3. Coercive persuasion, power and corporate culturism. 4.
Spirituality and leadership: Using ideology to enhance leaders' power. 5.
The dark side of leadership and silence in the workplace. 6. The folly and
the dangers of leadership education in business schools PART TWO: CASE
STUDIES 7. The dark side of leadership in corporate America: Enron
revisited. 8.The Militant Tendency's long march to oblivion: Conformity and
authoritarian leadership on the left. 9. Leadership, group suicide and mass
murder: Jonestown and Heaven's Gate through the looking glass 10.
Accounting for failure: Bankers in the spotlight PART THREE: CONCLUSION
11. Reimagining leadership and followership: A processual, communication
perspective