Title: Leadership : understanding the dynamics of power and influence in organizations /
Authors: Vecchio, Robert P.; Vecchio, Robert P.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Leadership; Executive ability.
Contents: I. Introduction and overview. Concepts of leadership / Bernard M. Bass -- What leaders really do / John P. Kotter -- The manager's job : folklore and fact / Henry Mintzberg -- The ambiguity of leadership / Jeffrey Pfeffer -- II. Power and influence. Power, politics, and influence / Robert P. Vecchio -- Managing your boss / John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter -- Effective followership : leadership turned upside down / Robert P. Vecchio -- Intraorganizational influence tactics : explorations in getting in one's way / David Kipnis, Stuart M. Schmidt and Ida Wilkinson -- A social influence interpretation of worker motivation / Marto Sussman and Robert P. Vecchio -- III. Dysfunctional aspects of leadership. Groupthink / Irving L. Janis -- Leadership and expectations : pygmalion and other self-fulfilling prophecies in organizations / Dov Eden -- Narcissism and leadership : an object relations perspective / Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Danny Miller -- The dark side of leadership / Jay A. Conger -- Leaders who self-destruct : the causes and cures / Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries -- On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B / Steven Kerr.