Gilbert W. Fairholm

Real Leadership (eBook, PDF)

How Spiritual Values Give Leadership Meaning

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This text explains why values-based spiritual leadership that coalesces employees into a harmonious group is the only way to successfully manage increasingly diverse workers in the 21st century. A person's values are the most powerful factor defining his or her actions; everyone has a value system or a spiritual component that triggers their behavior. Our personal values are a more powerful force upon individual action than corporate policy, procedures, tradition or peer pressure. Since the work environment is where the typical worker will spend the most time-more than at home with family, with friends, or at church-it is reasonable that workers will have spiritual demands as well as economic needs from their work lives. Unfortunately, this is a task managers are not prepared to meet. Real Leadership: How Spiritual Values Give Leadership Meaning argues that values-based-i.e., spiritual-leadership is the only way to do leadership in today's globalized, multi-differentiated world. The author traces the development of real leadership through five generations of theory, then builds a strong case for the values leadership strategy because of its ability to unify workers... and because it allows them to find personal meaning in the workplace task at hand.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313393327
• Artikelnr.: 37836613

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Values Trigger Our Behavior Thesis One: A
Changing World Requires New Leadership 1 Globalization: Its Impact and
Implications for Real Leadership Thesis Two: Leadership Is Not Management
Nor Is Management Leadership 2 Understanding Leadership 3 Understanding
Modern Management Practice 4 Comparing Real Leadership and Modern
Management Practice Thesis Three: Real Leadership Is a Values-setting
Paradigm 5 Past Generations of Theory Inappropriately Combine Leadership
with Management 6 The Fourth Generation of Leadership Is Values Leadership
7 The Values Leadership Perspectives Model Thesis Four: Spiritual
Leadership Is the Wave of Future Leadership 8 Spiritual Leadership Is the
Fifth Generation of Values Leadership 9 Spiritual Leadership in Action
Bibliography Index