Leadership Communication Theory and Practice

Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University, USA.Nilanjana Bardhan is a Professor of public relations and intercultural communication in the School of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University, USA.Sean M. Eddington is an Associate Professor of organizational communication in the A.Q. Miller School of Media and Communication at Kansas State University, USA.

• Foreword Introduction SECTION ONE: DEIA, Intercultural, and Critical Approaches to Leadership and Communication 1. Feminist Communication Theory of Resilience as Design for Leadership in a Culturally Complex World 2. Intersectional Leadership, Leadership-as-Medium, and Institutional Change 3. Authentic Leadership: A Step Backward from a Communication Perspective 4. Embracing Difference in Leadership and Organizational Life: A Critical Intercultural Communication Perspective 5. Leadership and Building Inclusive Organizational Cultures through Microaffirmations 6. A Critical Dialectical Perspective for Intercultural Leadership Communication SECTION TWO: Relational, Discursive, and Collective Approaches to Leadership and Communication 7. Integrating Communication and Leadership Theories for Enhanced Leadership in Federal Agencies 8. Accidentally Visible and Unmuted: Communication Privacy Management and Adaptive Leadership in Evolving Workplaces 9. Relational Styles and Social Cognition in Leadership Communication: Balancing Warmth and Competence 10. Leadership Mythodology, Narrative, and Communication Ethics: Engaging the Other 11. Leader-Member Exchange Theory, Theory of Independent-Mindedness, and Superior-Subordinate Relationships 12. Serving up Sustainability: Institutionalized Leadership Communication in the Restaurant Industry 13. The Dialogic Spectrum of Leadership-as-Practice Development 14. Leveraging Digital Affordances for Collective Leadership: Insights from Mutual Aid Organizing SECTION THREE: Pedagogical and Training Approaches to Leadership and Communication 15. Humanistic Leadership: Transforming Business through Communication Education 16. Social Construction of Leadership and Change: Cases from Higher Education 17. Moral Map of DEI Leadership Pitfalls: Developing Inclusive Servant Leadership 18. The Integration of Relational Resilience into a Leadership Communication Course for Military Students 19. Communicating Mission Command: A Four-Part Framework for Leaders 20. Authenticity in Leadership Communication: Storytelling and Mission-Driven Messaging as Pedagogical Tools 21. #SwarmHunger: Mobilizing Feminist Communication Pedagogies and Adaptive Leadership to Combat Food Insecurity 22. Advancing Systems Change through Doctoral Education: Leveraging Publicly Engaged Leadership Scholarship 23. Freire’s Revolutionary Leadership and Critical Communication Pedagogy