Leadership processes and follower self-identity
By: Robert G. Lord, Douglas J. Brown
Contributors: Brown, Douglas J
Series: LEA's organization and management series
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Leadership -- Psychological aspects; Self-perception; Identity (Psychology)
Description: Presenting a follower-centered perspective on leadership, this book focuses on followers as the direct determinant of leadership effects because it is generally through follower reactions and behaviors that leadership attempts succeed or fail. Therefore, leadership theory needs to be articulated with a theory of how followers create meaning from leadership acts and how this meaning helps followers self-regulate in specific contexts. In this book, an attempt is made to develop such a theory, maintaining that the central construct in this process is the self-identity of followers. In developing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-236) and indexes