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Leading Solutions: Essays in Business Psychology by Olivier Serrat, ISBN-13: 978-9813364844
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- Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2021 edition (April 15, 2021)
- Language: English
- 387 pages
- ISBN-10: 981336484X
- ISBN-13: 978-9813364844
This book on business psychology―particularly organizational leadership―crosses industries, continents, and business environments: it includes 45 précis on emerging theories of leadership; ethical and cultural considerations; group and team leadership; leadership self-development; management philosophy and practice; organizational diagnosis and cultural dynamics; personality and lifespan in the workplace; professional development; qualitative research methods; psychological, socio-cultural, and political dimensions of organizations; the role of technology in organizations; strategic change management; and systems theory. The material ranges widely but is pithy: each précis offers in easy bites the latest “take” on the subject, drawing from popular textbooks, recommended readings, case studies, group exercises, personal experience, and self-reflection; each was written as a key to understanding and change with an eye to re-imagining leadership in the 21st century. Both rigorously researched and entertaining, this book addresses the fast-changing realities of organizational leadership in domestic and international settings across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors: it will serve as a valuable quick-access resource for practitioners and students.
Table of Contents:
Emerging Theories of Leadership
Ethical and Relational Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Paradox and Neuroscience: Emerging Theories of Leadership . . . . . . . . . 11
Personal Leadership Development Plans: Essentials and Practicum . . . . 19
Personal Philosophy of Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Personal Philosophy of Leadership (2nd Edition) . . . . . .. . . . . 33
Review of Situational Leadership® After 25
Years—A Retrospective (Blanchard, Zigarmi, & Nelson,
1993) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Ethical & Cultural Considerations
Ethics: My Own Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Life-Markers and Personal Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Reflections on Four Case Studies in Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Group & Team Leadership
The Self in Teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 71
The Self in Teams (Cont’d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Self in Teams (Coda) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 85
Leadership Self-Development
Establishing Your Fundamental Self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
The Challenges of Learning from Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
The Full Range Leadership Model: Essentials and Practicum . . . . . . . . . . 109
Management Philosophy & Practice
A Taxonomy of Management Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Mintzberg’s Managing: Implications for Coaching and Training . . . . . . . 151
Mintzberg’s Model of Managing: Random Thoughts
from an Observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Organizational Diagnosis & Cultural Dynamics
Synergizing the Competing Values Framework and the Six-Box
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 173
Personality & Lifespan in the Workplace
Blustein’s Psychology of Working: A Very Short Introduction . . . . . . . . . 183
Contextual Factors inWorking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Developing Expert Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 193
Identity Processes in Leader Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Leader Development Through Work Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Moral Development for Authentic Leadership Effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Seven Entries on Twenty-First Century Working . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
The Reflective Judgment Model: What Role in Leader
Development? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Professional Development
Analyzing the Logic of Articles and Textbooks: Essentials
and Practicum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Reading Research Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Scholarly Argument: Linking Doctoral Research to Practice . . . . . . . . . . 249
Psychological, Socio-Cultural, & Political Dimensions of
Organizations
Critical Psychology and Organizations: The Case of the United
Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Development of Critical Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 261
Minority Population Analysis: The Aeta of the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Minority Populations: There Are More Than Meets the Eye . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Qualitative Research Methods
Book Analysis of Interviewing as Qualitative Research (Seidman,
2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Research Concept Paper for Leading Organizations of the Future . . . . . . 287
Strategic Change Management
Change Management Strategy in Action: Independent Evaluation
for Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Schein’s Process Consultation: Three Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Systems Theory
Five Notes on Systems Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Idealized Design for Virtual Teaming: A Modest Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Idealized Design: Three Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Mental Models in and of Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
The Learning Organization Needs No Apology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
The Role of Technology in Organizations
Planning and Driving a Digital Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Information and Communication Technology in Organizations:
An Evolutionary Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Olivier Serrat is an author, speaker, consultant, and researcher in the field of organizational leadership. His interest in organizational effectiveness grew while working on agriculture, environment, and natural resources in Asia and the Pacific, where in more than a dozen countries he worked to promote prosperity, inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability. Olivier spearheaded knowledge management at the Asian Development Bank from 2008–2012. In consideration of the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of general conditions and situations in the 21st century, he sees that we must―beyond preoccupation with leadership styles―learn to lead in new ways of organizing. At the intersection of complexity leadership, metagovernance, and knowledge management (especially sensemaking), Olivier investigates how to lead organizations of the future.
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