Gilbert W. Fairholm

Perspectives on Leadership (eBook, PDF)

From the Science of Management to Its Spiritual Heart

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In tracing the intellectual roots of business leadership over the last one hundred years, award winning author Gilbert W. Fairholm argues that until recently, spirit and soul have been absent from the major models. After outlining the elements of the five major ideas about leadership, he goes on to define and make operational a new focus that must exist in order to truly understand the leaders' role in relation to workers. The study begins with scientific management and traces the evolution of leadership ideas through the quality movement, on to values-, culture-, and trust-based leadership models, and concluding with an emphasis on spirit in the workplace. It suggests that the leader in the twenty-first century will need to embrace a leadership style based on the main premise of each model along with a focus on ethics, community, service, and spirituality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313390647
• Artikelnr.: 54141971

Autorenporträt

Gilbert W. Fairholm is emeritus professor of leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Leadership as Management Evolution of the Manager as
Leader Purposes of Management Leadership Excellence Leadership as Excellent
Management Defining Quality Operationally Skills Needed for Excellence
Leadership Values Leadership Defining Values-based Leadership Principles of
Values-based Leadership Theory The Values-based Leadership Model Trust
Leadership Unified Cultures Defining Culture Shaping Culture The Leadership
of Trust Leadership and Multiculturalism The Spiritual Heart of Leadership
The Place of Spirit in Our Work Lives Defining Spiritual Leadership
Problems with the Current Situation Understanding Spiritual Leadership at
Work Application of Spiritual Leadership at Work Applying Spiritual
Leadership Bibliography Index