The Pfeiffer book of successful leadership development tools

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Jack, author.

Contributor:

Gordon, Jack, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership--Problems, exercises, etc.

Leadership.

Executive ability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 435 p. ;) ill. ;

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Book of successful leadership development tools

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Pfeiffer 2007

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools is organized into three sections: Presentations and Discussions (articles); Experiential Learning Activities; and Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys. These selections represent the all-time best the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks have to offer on the topic. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools · Includes an overview of management theorists who have shaped modern thought about organizations and leadership · Contains complete, ready-made training exercises designed to meet a variety of needs for different audiences · Offers inventories that include questionnaires and instruments that help people clarify their own beliefs about leadership

Contents:

Presentation and discussion resources

Leadership is in the eye of the follower / James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Leadership as persuasion and adaptation / Julia T. Wood

Leadership from the gestalt perspective / H.B. Karp

An overview of ten management and organizational theorists / Marshall Sashkin

McGregor's theory X-theory Y model / Albert J. Robinson

Impact at ground zero: where theory meets practice / Patrick Doyle and C.R. Tindal

A model for the executive management of transformational change / Richard Beckhard

Visionary's disease and the CEO / George M. Smart, Jr.

2: Experiential learning activities

Style and approach

Choose me: developing power within a group / Larry Porter

Successful leadership traits: reaching consensus / Robert Alan Black

Motivation: a feedback activity / Donald F. Michalak

Management skills: assessing personal performance / Carol J. Levin

Leadership history: searching the past for insight / Frank A. Prince

Management perspectives: identifying styles / Patrick Doyle

Organizations and systems

MACE: demonstrating factors that affect performance / Stephen Dakin and Russell Robb

Organizational structures: a simulation / Rudi E. Weber

There's never time to do it right: a relay task / Russell J. Denz

The flip-it company: exploring the impact of work quotas / James L. Costigan

The robotics decision: solving strategic problems / Charles H. Smith

Reviewing objectives and strategies: a planning task for managers / Cyril R. Mill

Skill building

Feedback awareness: skill building for supervisors / Robert William Lucas

Delegation: using time and resources effectively / Michael N. O'Malley and Catherine M.T. Lombardozzi

Constructive discipline: following organizational guidelines / Allen J. Schuh

Vice president's in-basket: a management activity / Annette N. Shelby

Under pressure: managing time effectively / Glenn H. Varney

Interviewing gathering pertinent information / Kenneth L. Murrell

Meeting management: coping with dysfunctional behaviors / Patrick Doyle and C.R. Tindal

3: Inventories, questionnaires, and surveys

Strategic leadership styles instrument / Gaylord Reagan

The supervisory and leadership beliefs questionnaire / T. Venkateswara Rao

Motivational analysis of organizations

behavior (MAO-B) / Udai Pareek

climate (MAO-C) / UDAI Pareek

Managerial work-values scale / T. Venkateswara Rao

Patterns of effective supervisory behavior / Henry P. Sims, Jr.

The leadership dimensions survey / Gerald V. Miller.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

428739773