Flexible leadership : creating value by balancing multiple challenges and choices
Gary Yukl, Richard Lepsinger
Bok Engelsk 2004 Gary A. Yukl,· Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass , c2004
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| Omfang | XVII, 270 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - About This Book; Flexible Leadership Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; The Authors; 1. The Nature of Effective Leadership; Leadership: Fact and Myth; Model of Flexible Leadership; Origins of the Model; Overview of the Book; Conclusions; Section I: Efficiency and Process Reliability; 2. The Challenge of Improving Efficiency and Process Reliability; Examples of High Efficiency and Process Reliability; Conditions Affecting Efficiency and Process Reliability; Ways to Improve Efficiency and Process Reliability; Conclusions. - 3. Leadership Behaviors to Enhance Efficiency and Process ReliabilityOperational Planning; Clarifying Roles and Objectives; Monitoring Operations and Performance; Solving Operational Problems; Relationships Among the Behaviors; Conclusions; 4. Programs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency and Process Reliability; Quality and Process Improvement Programs; Cost Reduction Programs; Management Systems and Structural Forms; Recognition and Reward Programs; Conclusions; Section II: Innovation and Adaptation; 5. The Challenge of Adapting to the External Environment. - 9. Leader Behaviors for Enhancing Human ResourcesSupporting; Recognizing; Developing; Consulting; Empowering; Team Building; Relationships Among the Behaviors; Conclusions; 10. Programs and Management Systems for Enhancing Human Resources; Human Resource Planning Systems; Employee Development Programs; Empowerment Programs; Recognition, Award, and Benefit Programs; Quality of Work Life Programs; Orientation and Team-Building Programs; Conclusions; Section IV: Finding the Right Balance; 11. Multiple Challenges and Tradeoffs for Leaders; Tradeoffs Among the Three Performance Determinants. - Changes in Performance Determinants. - Conditions Affecting the Importance of AdaptationExamples of Failure in Adaptation; Examples of Successful Adaptation; Reasons for Success and Failure; Ways to Enhance Adaptations; Conclusions; 6. Leader Behaviors to Enhance Adaptation; Monitoring the Environment; Strategic Planning; Envisioning Change; Building Support for Change; Implementing Change; Encouraging Innovative Thinking; Facilitating Collective Learning; Relationships Among Change-Oriented Behaviors; Conclusions; 7. Programs, Systems, and Strategies for Enhancing Adaptation; Intrepreneurship Programs; External Benchmarking. - Programs for Understanding CustomersReward and Recognition Programs; Collective Learning Practices; Knowledge Management Systems; Structural Forms to Facilitate Innovation; Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Alliances; Conclusions; Section III: Human Resources and Relations; 8. The Challenge of Managing Human Resources; Conditions That Affect the Importance of Human Resources; Implications of Strategy for Human Resources; Examples of Good Human Relations; Examples of Human Relations Problems; Ways to Improve Human Resources and Relations; Conclusions. - If you are a manager or a training and development professional, you need concrete suggestions for guiding your organization through rapidly changing conditions and difficult challenges. Flexible Leadership offers a comprehensive theory that integrates findings from different disciplines and more than a half century of research and explains how leaders can effectively enhance the bottom-line performance of their organizations. The authors provide illustrative examples of effective and ineffective leadership, including some from their own consulting experiences over the past 30 years in
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| ISBN | 0787965316
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