Managing without leadership : towards a theory of organizational functioning /

Argues that leadership as traditionally understood does not explain organizational functioning. Drawing on coherentist epistemology, connectionism, and the theory of self-organizing dynamic systems, a naturalistic account of organizational functioning is explored that includes leaders as non-privile...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lakomski, Gabriele
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; San Diego, CA : Elsevier, 2005.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Leadership.
Organizational effectiveness.
Leadership
Efficacité organisationnelle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Workplace Culture.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate Governance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Leadership.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Development.
Organizational effectiveness
Leiderschap.
Organisatietheorie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Why We Can Manage without Leadership
  • Introduction
  • From leader behaviors to transformational leadership
  • Empiricist science and leadership
  • Leadership and organizational culture
  • Reconsidering culture as cognitive process
  • Distributed leadership
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Postmodernist Leadership
  • Introduction
  • Postmodernism in organization theory and educational administration
  • Problems of postmodernist theory and practice
  • The alleged primacy of discourse and the construction of self
  • The neural self
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Leadership, Organizational Culture and Change
  • Introduction
  • Organization and culture
  • The special case of culture in cross-cultural management
  • Schein's conception of organizational culture and leadership
  • Some inconsistencies
  • Cultural cognition or cognitive culture: two sides of one coin
  • Organizing in context
  • Organizations and change
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Substituted or Distributed: The End of Leadership as We Know It?
  • Introduction
  • The substitutes for leadership view
  • Distributed leadership: an idea whose time has come?
  • Distributed leadership and distributed cognition
  • The theory of cognition
  • Naturalism and leadership
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Managing Organizational Knowledge
  • Introduction
  • The promise of Knowledge Management
  • The two dimensions of Knowledge Management
  • The dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation
  • Netting human cognition
  • Communities of practice and collective knowledge
  • Managing more than we can tell?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Moving Knowledge: What is Transfer?
  • Introduction
  • S̀̀ticky'' transfer
  • Situated learning and transfer
  • The meshing of mind and world
  • How to determine a [task] environment
  • Environment as activity space
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Organization, Emergence and Design
  • Introduction
  • Cooperation and coordination: the twin problems of organization
  • On the pheromone trail: from simple rules to complex outcomes
  • Swarm intelligence, emergence and self-organization
  • The logic of patches
  • Patching, real world, and organization design
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • A Road Map to Managing without Leadership
  • References
  • Subject Index
  • Last Page.

Ejemplares similares