Leadership Dynamics

Edwin P. Hollander has written extensively on leadership and related topics in social psychology. He is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has also served as Provost of Social Sciences. A Columbia Ph.D., he began his leadership research while on duty as a navel aviation psychologist, and has taught at Carnegie-Mellon, Washington (St. Louis), and American universities, with visiting appointments at Istanbul, Wisconsin, Harvard, and Oxford universities. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Hollander is former president of its Division of General Psychology.

• ContentsIntroductionPreface1. Leadership: What Is it?Leadership Is an Influence ProcessBackgroundVarieties of LeadershipLeadership and the LeaderLeaders and FollowersThe Leader-Follower TransactionSharing Leadership ActivitiesResponsibility and AccountabilitySummary2. Ways of Approaching LeadershipThe Person and/or the Times?Traits and Leader FunctionsThe Description of Leader BehaviorLeader StyleThe Situational ApproachContingency ModelsThe Transactional ApproachIdiosyncrasy Credit: Earned Status and InnovationSummary3. Leader Authority and FollowershipAuthority and Legitimacy among FollowersThe Perception of Status and CredibilityBecoming and Staying a LeaderEffects of Appointed or Elected LeadershipEffects of Followers' Behavior on Leader BehaviorSummary4. Social Exchange in LeadershipBasic Concepts of Social ExchangeWhat Makes for a "Fair Exchange" in Leadership?Leadership as a TransactionSystem Progress and Leader-Follower Team EffectivenessDistributive Justice and EquityLeader-Follower Roles and PowerSummary5. Leadership Functions in OrganizationsLeadership Roles and Group MaintenanceResources and Powers in Management and AdministrationDefining Group Functions and Goals AdaptivelyThe Leader's Task and Human Relations FunctionsParticipative LeadershipJob Satisfaction and DissatisfactionJob Enrichment and Management by ObjectivesSummary6. Leadership EffectivenessEffectiveness for What?Identifying Leadership EffectivenessInterpersonal Qualities in Leadership EffectivenessEnablement, Restraint, and Autocratic LeadershipForesight and PlanningLeader Training and the Identification of Effective and Ineffective LeadersMaintaining the Leader RoleSummary7. Leadership and Social ChangeMaking Needed ChangesOrganizational and Institutional Responses to ChangeOrganizational RenewalGroup Dynamics and ChangeCharismatic LeadersOrganizational Structure, Control, and Limits to InnovationSummary8. Leadership Dynamics: A Summing UpHow the Transactional Approach Is DifferentVariations on Leader CompetenceVariations on Leader StyleVariations on Leadership EffectivenessParting ThoughtsNotesWorks CitedName IndexSubject Index

Personnel Psychology ...engagingly written with many references to real world issues. Yet, very extensive citations to research and theory clearly demonstrate the substance behind the thesis...excellent chapter summaries help greatly to organize the material.