Shared leadership : reframing the hows and whys of leadership / editors, Craig L. Pearce, Jay A. Conger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pearce, Craig L.

Conger, Jay Alden.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Teams in the workplace.

Physical Description:

xiii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2003]

Summary:

Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadershipbrings together the foremost thinkers on the subject and is the first book of its kind to address the conceptual, methodological, and practical issues for shared leadership. Its aim is to advance understanding along many dimensions of the shared leadership phenomenon: its dynamics, moderators, appropriate settings, facilitating factors, contingencies, measurement, practice implications, and directions for the future. The volume provides a realistic and practical discussion of the benefits, as well as the risks and problems, associated with shared leadership. It will serve as an indispensable guide for researchers and practicing managers in identifying where and when shared leadership may be appropriate for organizations and teams.

Contents:

1. All Those Years Ago: The Historical Underpinnings of Shared Leadership / Craig L. Pearce, Jay A. Conger 1

The Emergence of the Scientific Study of Leadership: The Leader in a Command Role 3

The Management Field's Brief Flirtations With Concepts Related to Shared Leadership 6

Laying the Theoretical Groundwork for Shared Leadership: Organizational Research From the 1930s Through the 1960s 7

Building the Case for Shared Leadership: Organizational Research From the 1970s Through the Turn of the Millennium 9

The "Arrival" of Shared Leadership and the Way Forward 13

Part I Conceptual Models of Shared Leadership 19

2. Shared leadership: Paradox and possibility / Joyce K. Fletcher, Katrin Kaufer 21

New Leadership Practices 21

Shared Leadership: What Is It? 22

Paradoxes of Shared Leadership 24

Possibility: Rethinking Shared Leadership From a Relational Perspective 26

Revisiting the Paradoxes of Shared Leadership 31

Possibility: Dialogue and Stone Center Relational Theory 35

3. Toward a Model of Shared Leadership and Distributed Influence in the Innovation Process: How Shared Leadership Can Enhance New Product Development Team Dynamics and Effectiveness / Jonathan F. Cox, Craig L. Pearce, Monica L. Perry 48

New Product Development Organization and Teams 49

Leading New Product Development Teams 51

A Model of Shared Leadership in New Product Development Teams 55

4. Can Team Members Share Leadership? Foundations in Research and Theory / Anson Seers, Tiffany Keller, James M. Wilkerson 77

Supervision and the Definition of Leadership 78

Revisiting the Theoretical Roots of Role Making 82

Toward a Theoretical Model of Shared Influence 89

5. The Role of Shared Cognition in Enabling Shared Leadership and Team Adaptability / C. Shawn Burke, Stephen M. Fiore, Eduardo Salas 103

Team Leadership 104

Shared Team Leadership 105

6. Self-Leadership and SuperLeadership: The Heart and Art of Creating Shared Leadership in Teams / Jeffery D. Houghton, Christopher P. Neck, Charles C. Manz 123

Shared Leadership 124

Self-Leadership: The Heart of Shared Leadership 126

SuperLeadership: The Art of Facilitating Shared Leadership 133

Part II Methodological Issues in the Study of Shared Leadership 141

7. Assessing Shared Leadership: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Team Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire / Bruce J. Avolio, Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, William D. Murry, Don Jung, John W. Garger 143

Leadership "of" Versus "by" the Team 144

Building the Team Leadership Construct 145

8. A Group Exchange Structure Approach to Leadership in Groups / Scott E. Seibert, Raymond T. Sparrowe, Robert C. Liden 173

Shared Leadership, Individuals, and Group Influence 174

A Group Exchange Approach to Shared Leadership 178

Speculations on Group Exchange Structure and Group Process 181

Differentiation of Exchange Relationships and the Formation of Group Structures 184

Vertical Leadership and Shared Leadership 186

Future Research Directions 188

9. Shared Leadership in Work Teams: A Social Network Approach / Margarita Mayo, James R. Meindl, Juan-Carlos Pastor 193

Basic Concepts in Intraorganizational Social Network Analysis 194

The Nature of Shared Leadership 197

The Topography of Shared Leadership 203

Research Implications 206

Part III The Study of Shared Leadership in Applied Settings 215

10. Flow, Creativity, and Shared Leadership: Rethinking the Motivation and Structuring of Knowledge Work / Charles Hooker, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 217

Flow 220

Sample and Method 223

Shared Leadership in a Space Science Lab 224

Finding Flow in Shared Leadership 227

Motivating Creativity in Knowledge Work 229

11. Shared Leadership in the Management of Group Boundaries: A Study of Expulsions From Officers' Training Courses / Boas Shamir, Yael Lapidot 235

Background: Expulsion of Cadets from IDF Officers' Training Courses 237

The Study 238

Some Evidence: Shared Leadership in Expulsion Decisions 239

12. The Promise and Pitfalls of Shared Leadership: When Two (or More) Heads are Better Than One / James O'Toole, Jay Galbraith, Edward E. Lawler, III 250

Change at the Top 252

Partnership at the Top 252

Origins of Shared Leadership 254

Different Roles 257

Selecting a Leadership Team 258

Working Together 259

Working With Others 260

Leadership Institutionalized 260

Appendix A The Intel Office Model 261

Appendix B The General Electric Model 263

Appendix C Midwest Manufacturing Company 264

Part IV Critique of Shared Leadership Theory 269

13. Leadership: Starting at the Top / Edwin A. Locke 271

Top-Down Model 271

Bottom-Up Model 273

Shared Leadership Model 273

The Tasks of the Top Leader 276

The Integrated Model 281

14. A Landscape of Opportunities: Future Research on Shared Leadership / Jay A. Conger, Craig L. Pearce 285

The Relationship Between Shared and Vertical Leadership 286

The Dynamics of Shared Leadership 287

Implementing Shared Leadership 294

Cross-Cultural Factors 295

Outcomes of Shared Leadership 296

Measuring Shared Leadership 297

The Limits and Liabilities of Shared Leadership 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761926232

0761926240

OCLC:

50079600