Flexible leadership : creating value by balancing multiple challenges and choices

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Author:

Yukl, Gary A., 1940-

ISBN:

9780787965310

Personal Author:

Yukl, Gary A., 1940-

Publication Information:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Physical Description:

p. ; cm.

Contents:

1. The nature of effective leadership -- Sect. I. Efficiency and process reliability -- 2. The challenge of improving efficiency and process reliability -- 3. Leadership behaviors to enhance efficiency and process reliability -- 4. Programs and management systems for improving efficiency and process reliability -- Sect. II. Innovation and adaptation -- 5. The challenge of adapting to the external environment -- 6. Leader behaviors to enhance adaptation -- 7. Programs, systems, and strategies for enhancing adaptation -- Sect. III. Human resources and relations -- 8. The challenge of managing human resources -- 9. Leader behaviors for enhancing human resources -- 10. Programs and management systems for enhancing human resources -- Sect. IV. Finding the right balance -- 11. Multiple challenges and tradeoffs for leaders -- 12. The path to flexible leadership.

Subject Term:

Added Author:

Lepsinger, Richard, 1948-

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley041/2003024759.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003024759.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley047/2003024759.html

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If you are a manager or a training and development professional, you need concrete suggestions for guiding your organization through rapidly changing conditions and difficult challenges. Flexible Leadership offers a comprehensive theory that integrates findings from different disciplines and more than a half century of research and explains how leaders can effectively enhance the bottom-line performance of their organizations. The authors provide illustrative examples of effective and ineffective leadership, including some from their own consulting experiences over the past 30 years in private and public sector organizations. The book includes information about Leadership and management behaviors that can be used to enhance organizational performance. Improvement programs, management systems, and structural forms that can be used to enhance organizational performance. Integrating direct and indirect forms of leadership. Balancing tradeoffs and competing demands related to performance. Adapting leadership to changing situations. Integrating leadership processes at different levels of an organization. Competencies relevant for effective leadership.