Leadership Now

Israel Katz is an associate professor at the Departments of Psychology and Sociology (where he is also the director of Organizational studies) in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Dr. Galit Eilam Shamir is a senior lecturer and the director of the MBA program in Organizational Management Studies at the Faculty of Business Administration at Ono Academic College. Ronit Kark is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University. Yair Berson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology of Bar-Ilan University and a Visiting Research Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business.

• Introduction. From Leader-Centric to Collective Leadership; Israel Katz, Galit Eilam-Shamir, Ronit Kark, and Yair Berson Chapter 1. The Motivational Effect of Charismatic Leadership: A Self-Concept Based Theory; Boas Shamir, Robert J. House, and Michael B. Arthur  Chapter 2. The Rhetoric of Charismatic Leadership: A Theoretical Extension, a Case Study, and Implications for Research; Boas Shamir, Michael B. Arthur, and Robert J. House Chapter 3. “What’s Your Story?”: A Life-Stories Approach to Authentic Leadership Development; Boas Shamir and Galit Eilam-Shamir Chapter 4. Keeping the Baby while Refreshing the Bathwater: Revisiting the Role of Singular Leadership; Bruce J. Avolio, Ben M. Galvin, and David. A. Waldman Chapter 5. Charismatic Pygmalion: The Most Effective Leadership Combo; Dov Eden Chapter 6. The Charismatic Relationship: Alternative Explanations and Predictions; Boas Shamir  Chapter 7. The Role of Followers in Charismatic Leadership: Relationships and Their Consequences; Jane M. Howell and Boas Shamir Chapter 8. Great Minds Think Alike? Congruence in Leader And Follower Organizational Identification and Perceptions of Leader Charisma; Deanne N. Den Hartog and Corine Boon Chapter 9. Reversing the Lens in Leadership: Positioning Followership in the Leadership Construct; Mary Uhl-Bien and Melissa Carsten Chapter 10. Social Distance and Charisma: Theoretical Notes and an Exploratory Study; Boas Shamir  Chapter 11. Organizational and Contextual Influences on Charismatic Leadership Emergence and Effectiveness; Boas Shamir and Jane M. Howell Chapter 12. The Implications of Emotional Distance on Construal Level of Leadership; Micha Popper  Chapter 13. Leadership in Transformation: From Maestro to a Jazz Orchestra; Smadar Porat Chapter 14. Leadership Now: Reflecting on the Legacy of Boas Shamir; Yair Berson, Ronit Kark, Galit Eilam-Shamir, and Israel Katz

Reprinted articles by scholar of business Boas Shamir (d. 2014) discuss leader-centric approaches, the leader-follower relationship, the context of leadership, and his legacy as a professor. Among his topics are the motivational effects of charismatic leadership: a self-concept based theory, social distance and charisma: theoretical notes and an exploratory study, and organizational and contextual influences on the emergence and effectiveness of charismatic leadership. Scholars influenced by his work also contribute new papers, on such matters as keeping the baby while refreshing the bathwater: revisiting the role of singular leadership, and leadership in transformation: from maestro to a jazz orchestra. The 14 papers are from a November 2015 conference in Jerusalem.