Biblical Principles of Leading and Managing Employees

Bruce E. Winston is Professor of Business and Leadership at Regent University, USA. He previously served as Dean of the School of Leadership Studies. He is co-editor of Leading an African Renaissance: Opportunities and Challenges and Ethics: The Old Testament, The New Testament, and Contemporary Application.

• Introduction.- 1. Contrast leader, manager, and administrator.- 2. Leadership Style as an Outcome of Motive: A Contingency ‘State’ Rather than ‘Trait’ Concept.- 3. Applications from the Mountaintop.- 4. Harvesting the Fruit of Agapao Leadership.- 5. The virtue of Love: A foundation for leadership.- 6. The Four ‘Leadership’ Faces of Ezekiel 1, Ezekiel 10, and Revelation 4 Paralleled by the Four Gospels.- 7. The Leadership Styles of Jesus as Found in the Four Gospels.- 8. Compensation.- 9. Leadership According to  Proverbs 31.- 10. Stepping out of the way when it is time to leave – Ecclesiastes 3:1.- Conclusion.