Finding the best and the brightest : a guide to recruiting, selecting, and retaining effective leaders / Peg Thoms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thoms, Peg, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employee retention.

Employee selection.

Executives--Recruiting.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Finding the Best and Brightest proposes an approach to choosing leaders based on a set of criteria designed to align individual qualities with organizational or institutional goals. Peg Thoms challenges the popular trend in theory and practice toward transformational or visionary leadership, arguing instead that leadership must be developed in context; many organizations, for example, don't need visionaries as much as they need operational leaders, who get things done by focusing on present-day tasks, such as designing superior products and delivering exceptional customer service. This book pr

Contents:

The selection of leaders matters

What we know about effective leaders

Identifying necessary leader attributes

Recruiting leaders

Leadership selection tools

Developing and conducting a structured interview

Structured interview questions

Putting the pieces together

Developing leaders to fit the organization

Retaining effective leaders

Selecting government leaders

Improving organizations through improved leadership.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-176) and index.

ISBN:

9798400651397

9786610708741

9781280708749

1280708743

9780313027413

0313027412

OCLC:

243597699

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9798400651397