Book chapter
Leadership
The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Volume I - Micro Approaches, p.334
SAGE Publications Ltd
2008
DOI: 10.4135/9781849200448.n19
Abstract
It is hardly a bold statement to argue that leadership is one of the more foundational topics in organizational behavior. Every organizational behavior text has at least one, and often two, chapters on leadership, and leadership concerns are regularly at the forefront of business organizations and social policy debates. In all societies human and nonhuman alike individuals organize themselves into groups, and leaders emerge. Leaders are, by definition, at the pinnacle of these groups and organizations, and their actions, while not occurring in a vacuum, often change the course of the groups and organizations they lead and, in some cases, entire societies. Although the stakes are high, and the importance of their decisions are fundamental, effective leadership is all too often in the eye ...
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Leadership
- Creators
- Timothy A. Judge - University of FloridaErin Fluegge WoolfCharlice Hurst - Western UniversityBeth Livingston - University of Iowa, Management and Entrepreneurship
- Contributors
- Julian Barling (Editor)Cary Cooper (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Volume I - Micro Approaches, p.334
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd; London
- DOI
- 10.4135/9781849200448.n19
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380409402771
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