Cases on critical leadership skills / edited by D.D. Warrick (Professor of Leadership and Organization Change and President's Teaching Scholar, College of Business, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, US), Jens Mueller (MNZM, Director of Massey Executive Development, Massey University, New Zealand) and Anna Warrick (Vice President, The Warrick Agency Training and Development Company and Assistant Instructor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, US).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warrick, D. D., editor.

Mueller, Jens, editor.

Warrick, Anna, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar leadership cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership--Case studies.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2024.

Summary:

"It is important for leaders to learn as much as possible about what it takes to be a good leader. However, it is even more important to be able to apply what is being learned. Cases on Critical Leadership Skills provides interesting, real world, and often inspiring cases written by well-known experts and top level executives from around the world of leaders applying the critical skills needed to be a successful, high impact leader in a fast-paced modern society. Key Features: The 34 cases are organized around nine critical leadership skills. A brief summary of each case is provided so specific cases can be selected to read or emphasize. The cases come from around the globe, from many types of industries and organizations, and from large and small organizations. Each case includes a statement of the major focus of the case, engaging discussion items, and key leadership lessons to be learned. Cases on Critical Leadership Skills can be used in academic courses and leadership development programs that need examples of applications of critical leadership skills. It would also be of interest to leaders at all levels of an organization and anyone interested in developing critical leadership skills"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword.Alan Mulally Preface

Part I: Inspirational leaders and the impact leaders can have

1. Changing a country through transformational leadership and teacher empowerment / Ronald E. Riggio

2. A physician turned leader commits to building an award-winning organization / Susan Albers Mohrman and Arienne McCracken

3. Robert swan: From polar expeditions to entrepreneurial environmental leadership / Jireh Hooi-Inn Seow

4. Visionary leadership from northern Ireland: A woman of many firsts / Sandra Janoff and Marvin Weisbord

5. The first woman conductor of the baltimore symphony orchestra / Katherine Farquhar and David W. Jamieson

Part II: Leading in challenging and rapidly changing times

6. Responding to the great resignation / Linda Ronnie and Sarah Boyd

7. Building a change-ready organization for today's challenging times / D.D. Warrick

8. Leadership challenges in law enforcement in changing times / David Anderson, Peter Sorensen, and Therese Yaeger

Part III: The need for ethical leaders of strong character

9. Abraham lincoln and the reaper case: On forgiveness, trust-building, and mutual respect / Mark L. McConkie

10. Ecolab inc.: How a company encourages ethical leadership / Tracy L. Gonzalez-Padron

11. Cultural leadership: Building an ethical organizational culture / Achilles Armenakis, Steven Brown, and Anju Mehta

Part IV: The significant influence of a leader's leadership style

12. How leaders and companies treat people matters: Voices of women garment assembly workers in nicaragua / Virginia E. Schein

13. The importance of leadership style on morale, performance, and culture / D.D. Warrick

14. Leadership in a turnaround situation and a multicultural environment / Lloyd Gibson and Regina Gibson

Part V: Building people-oriented organizations that bring out the best in people

15. The leadership principles alan mulally followed in transforming ford motor company into a successful company with a strong people-oriented culture / D.D. Warrick and Alan Mulally

16. Building a people-oriented organization pre-pandemic and post-pandemic / Jeanne D. Maes and Dennis M. Gassert

17. Reigniting demotivated employees: Reversing career entrenchment / Angela Spranger

18. Using collaborative leadership at all levels to build people-oriented organizations / C. Theodor Forde-Stiegler, M.C. Immendorf, and Steven H. Cady

19. Taking care of your employees results in better care of customers: A case study of a large private hospital in dhaka, Bangladesh / William J. Rothwell and Sohel M. Imroz

Part VI: Building high-performing teams and teamwork

20. The fundamentals of building high-performance teams / D.D. Warrick

21. The synergistic robin hood: Building upon strengths to make productive teams / Mark L. McConkie

22. Building teamwork in a hostile unionized culture in a large company in India / Neha Gupta

Part VII: Building organizations for success

23. Developing an award-winning organization: A case study of a saudi chamber of commerce / Vijayalaxmi Moovala

24. Building a state-of-the art, world-class hospital / Jeanne D. Maes, Colonel Andrew W. Backus, William A. Sorrentino Jr., James P. Moore, and Robert A. Shearer

25. Huron hospital: Leading with sustainability to create a high-performance organization / Arienne McCracken and Susan Albers Mohrman

Part VIIi building strong cultures

26. How zappos built a zany, high-performance culture / D.D. Warrick, John Milliman, and Jeffery M. Ferguson

27. The influence of an australian ceo's philosophy and personality on shaping culture / Theodora Issa and David Pick

28. The organizational challenge: Building a change-adept culture / Janet McCollum and Ken Murrell

29. Building, rebuilding, and sustaining a winning culture at the madame zingara restaurant group / Kate (Herbert) Wardle and Linda Ronnie

30. The intentional engagement of informal leaders in a large-scale organization and culture change / Larry Peters

Part IX: Managing change

31. Exploring the world of pseudo change / Thomas C. Head and Peter Sorensen

32. Leading change: A case study of al salam bank-bahrain / Vijayalaxmi Moovala

33. Brandeis university: Selling art or the art of selling change / Todd Jick

Part X: Leader of leaders

34. What i learned from Frances hesselbein: Work is love made visible / Sarah McArthur.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035311866 (e-book)

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