LEADERSHIP
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(See also: Ethics; Management; Systems Thinking)
Cultivating Your Leadership Capabilities
Publisher: University of New Hampshire
Year of publication: ? [no date given]
Table of contents:
1. Defining Leadership: Leadership styles
2. Leadership vs. Management
3. Emotional Intelligence
4. Power and Influence
5. Developing Leadership Skills
6. Katz Three Skills
7. Trait, contingency, behavioral, and full-range theories
8. Path Goal Theory and Outstanding Leadership Theory
9. A Leader's Vision
10. Situational Leadership
11. Diversity and Inclusion
12. Leadership and Followers: Hersey and Blanchard
13. Ethical Leadership
14. Leaderful Women
15. Inclusive Leadership and Potential Barriers
16. Vulnerability in Leadership
Open Education References
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Drink, Swear, Steal, and Lie
: Leadership in Four Easy Steps
Publisher: [Alfred State College]
Year of publication: 2018
or https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/drinkswearstealandlieleadershipinfoureasysteps/
Drink, Swear, Steal, and Lie: Leadership in Four Easy Steps by Mark Whitman is based on a near forty year career of a Police Chief. This is not a how-to text on becoming a leader (albeit there are encounters with leadership characteristics and styles), but rather an inspiring essential on why one should become a leader. This text was primarily written to satisfy a Leadership course in Criminal Justice Programs. However, it will meet the needs of most leadership/management courses introduced in other curriculums. This text examines maintenance as a key factor for leaders, creating environments conducive to well-ordered organizations, being a risk taker/change agent and empowering others to do the same, and coaching.
Contents page:
Ch. I: INTRODUCTION
Ch. II: COMMUNICATIONS IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF ANY ORGANIZATION! – It’s not just something, it’s everything.
Ch. III: LEADERSHIP TRAITS – Leadership in Perspective – Competence, Character, and Courage.
Ch. IV: ARE LEADERSHIP STYLES NECESSARY? – How do these Impact Performance?
Ch. V: LEADERSHIP STYLES – Organizations Reflect the Attitude of those that Lead Them!
Ch. VI: DECISION MAKING – Decide Enthusiastically!
Ch. VII: CASE STUDY – Evaluation.
Ch. VIII: LEADERSHIP SURVIVAL IS OF THE MOST PREPARED, NOT NECESSARILY THE FITTEST! – Technology, Friend or Foe?
Ch. IX: YOU CAN’T FIX YOUR PEOPLE; YOU CAN ONLY HELP THEM GROW! – Heavy is the Head that wears the Crown.
Ch. X- HOW DO I KNOW IF I HAVE WHAT IT TAKES? – Am I a Risk Taker or Innovator?
Ch. XI: CAPABILITY IS NOT AUTOMATIC! – Leaders Lead, Even When They Don’t Feel Like It.
Ch. XII: BARKLEY – Manipulation Revisited.
Ch. XIII: EPILOGUE
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Education leadership
: Scoping, perspectives and future trajectory
Publisher: AOSIS
Year of publication: 2022
Leadership in education has been demonstrated to make a measurable and significant impact on the success of schools and the achievement levels of learners. This book displays the scope and range of the emerging field of the scholarship of education leadership by means of chapters zooming in on various areas of research in the field.
The ensuing chapters focus on various areas in the field of Education Leadership scholarship [see below]. All the chapters employ a variety of research methods. The research reported on in each of the chapters does not only give clear indications as to how and where to improve practice but also opens vistas for new and future research, suggesting to scholars in the field promising ways to take the field forward with research critical to the continual advance and relevance of the field.
Table of Contents:
Ch. 1: Surveying the panorama and zooming in on perspectives to chart a future trajectory for a young but surging field of scholarship
Ch. 2: Scoping research on the teaching of education leadership
Ch. 3: Collective teacher efficacy in high-performing high schools in South Africa
Ch. 4: School principals of special education schools: Leadership and challenges
Ch. 5: Entrepreneurial leadership: A key leadership style in uncertain times
Ch. 6: Using and maintaining ageing school facilities in Gauteng: Perceptions of school staff and school governing bodies
Ch. 7: Continuous professional development in Namibia: Perspectives and critique
Ch. 8: Role conflict and role ambiguity in mid-level management in primary schools: Challenges and expectations
Ch. 9: Understanding the instructional leader’s role of HoDs at parallel-medium primary schools
Ch. 10: Enablers of HoD curriculum leadership: Views from HoDs, principals and departmental officials
Ch. 11: Emerging leading lights for education leadership practice and research
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Ethical Leadership Handbook
(author: Deon Rossouw)
Publisher: The Ethics Institute (TEI)
Year of publication: 2023
The Ethics Handbook Series, published by The Ethics Institute, was introduced with the aim of providing persons involved in the governance and management of ethics in organisations, with practical and useful guidance on various aspects of organisational ethics. This Ethical Leadership Handbook is the 11th publication in this series.
The purpose of the Ethical Leadership Handbook is to provide practical guidance to persons who play an ethical leadership role in the governance or management of ethics in organisations.
Leadership is a very broad area of study, to which persons from a wide variety of disciplines contribute. There are also many different perspectives from which leadership can be approached.
The focus of this book, however, is specifically on the role that leaders in organisations can play in building an ethical culture in their organisations. For this purpose, the ‘Governance of Ethics Framework’ (which will be introduced in the first chapter) that was developed by The Ethics Institute will be used to confine the discussion of ethical leadership in organisations.
The focus will be on the role that persons in leadership positions can play – within the context of the Governance of Ethics Framework – to ensure that the outcome of this framework, viz., an ethical culture, can be achieved. This is thus not an academic treatise on ethical leadership in general, but a practical guide to assist people in ethical leadership positions to fulfil their roles optimally.
It is my wish that this book will contribute, along with the other publications in the Ethics Handbook Series to a growing body of practical knowledge on the governance and management of ethics in organisations.
Prof Deon Rossouw
CEO: The Ethics Institute
May 2023
NOTE:
Additional Publications in The Ethics Institute’s handbook series are available at www.tei.org.za/publications/
Contents page:
Foreword
1. Ethical leadership in organisations 1
1.1. Governance of Ethics Framework 1
1.2. Aspects of ethical leadership 4
2. Leading with integrity 5
2.1. Personal and organisational ethics 5
2.2. Leading with personal integrity 6
3. Ethical leadership competencies 13
3.1. Cognitive competence 13
3.2. Behavioural competence 15
3.3. Managerial competence 17
4. Ethical leadership tasks 22
4.1. Goal setting 22
4.2. Strategising 23
4.3. Setting the tone 24
4.4. Getting buy-in 26
4.5. Empowering 27
4.6. Communicating 28
4.7. Building alliances 30
4.8. Overseeing 31
4.9. Rewarding and disciplining 32
5. Ethical leadership roles and responsibilities 34
5.1. Governance roles and responsibilities 34
5.1.1. Governance of ethics 37
5.2. Management roles and responsibilities 40
5.2.1. Chief Executive Officer 41
5.2.2. Ethics champion 43
5.2.3. Ethics officer 44
5.2.4. Ethics ambassadors 48
5.2.5. Operational ethics committee 50
5.2.6. Line managers 52
5.2.7. Non-managerial employees 53
Conclusion 55
References 57
About the Author 59
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Leadership
: Advancing Great Leaders and Leadership
Publisher: IntechOpen
Year of publication: 2023
The role of a leader has changed drastically since scholars began theorizing about the modern leader. Contemporary society has and is continuing to evolve. Existing leadership theories need to adapt to be relevant to the expectations of leaders now. That is, new leadership theories emerge in their place. This book presents new ideas in leadership in the 21st-century context as well as new models that explain how individuals enact good leadership. This book serves as an opportunity to critique or defend current understandings of leadership and propose new evidence-based and theory-driven insights into leadership. Leadership is understood as more complex than an individual influencing another. Within the broad domains of leadership, there are leaders, followers, leadership processes, followership processes, teams, dyads, relationships, and context. Each of these is critical in defining what it is to be a good leader in increasingly complex professional and personal environments. This book will encourage authors to make compelling arguments not for how leadership is and has been but rather for how good leadership should be.
Table of Contents:
1. Introductory Chapter
: Leadership Roles Do Not Exist – The Case of Leaders and Managers
2. Leadership is a Practice Shaped by Everyday Actions in Messy Organisational Realities
3. Leadership Styles during Disruption
: A Multi-Case Study
4. Emotional Intelligence
: Constraints and Possibilities in Leadership Practices
5. Shepherd Leadership
: A Review and Future Research Directions
6. Dyadic Relationship Quality (DRQ) –
Describing the Development of Leader-Follower Relationship Quality
: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Study
7. An Introduction to High-Reliability Leadership Style in Healthcare
8. Chameleon Leadership and Traits to Serve on a Global Scale
9. Leadership Coaching to Drive Transformation in the Experience Economy
10. What Offshore Sailing Captains Teach Us about Leadership
11. When Spotting the Glass Cliff Matters for Women
: A Qualitative Study Focusing on Gender Inequalities in Corporate South Africa
12. Mindfulness in Organizations
: The Concept of Mindful Leadership
13. Leveraging Leader Relations to Cultivate Brain-Friendly Workplaces
14. Impact of Human Resource Management Practice on Organizational Performance
: The Case of Food Processing Enterprises in Vietnam
15. Authentic Leadership
: Supporting Employees’ Performance, Creativity, Involvement in Decision-Making and Outcomes
16. Perspective Chapter
: Creativity in the Work Environment – Reflections on the Role of Management for Creative Individuals Work
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Leadership and Ethical Responsibility
: The Three Aspects of Every Decision
(The WEA Global Issues Series. Vol. 13. )
Publisher: Culture and Science Publishing
Year of publication: 2013
Executives have to continually make responsible decisions. However, Christians who are executives often do not know how to build a bridge between their underlying values and the continual requirements of everyday working life.
The author sees a main problem in the way that within Christianity the three sides of ethical decisions have been played off against each other. However, one finds in the Bible that commandments, wisdom, and the heart all belong inseparably together. Therefore, norms, the particular situation, and existential concern all have to be considered in order to make mature decisions.
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Leading Cities
: A Global Review of City Leadership
Publisher: UCL Press
Year of publication: 2019
Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways in which this leadership is increasingly connected to global affairs.
Arguing that effective leadership is not just something created by an individual, Elizabeth Rapoport, Michele Acuto and Leonora Grcheva focus on three elements of city leadership: leaders, the structures and institutions that underpin them, and the tools used to drive change. Each of these elements are examined in turn, as are the major urban policy issues that leaders confront today on the ground. The book also takes a deep dive into one particular example of tool or instrument of city leadership – the strategic urban plan.
Leading Cities provides a much-needed overview and introduction to the theory and practice of city leadership, and a starting point for future research on, and evaluation of, city leadership and its practice around the world.
Table of Contents:
1 – Introduction – a time for city leadership
2 – Exploring city leadership: catalysts of action
3 – The shape of leadership: actors and structures
4 – Setting priorities: leadership between global and local
5 – Setting directions: leadership and strategic urban plans
6 – Conclusions – a search for better city leadership
About the authors:
Elizabeth Rapoport is an urban planner and researcher with over 15 years of experience working on planning, policy and governance issues internationally. Currently she is the Research Director for the Urban Land Institute, Europe.
Michele Acuto is Professor of Global Urban Politics and Director of the Connected Cities Lab in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
Leonora Grcheva is a community engagement and participation expert with UK company Soundings, leading public consultation on large scale planning projects. She has previously worked for the UN-Habitat Urban Planning Design Lab in Nairobi.
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Leading in a VUCA World
: Integrating Leadership, Discernment and Spirituality
Publisher: Springer, Cham
Year of publication: 2019
This open access book brings together works by specialists from different disciplines and continents to reflect on the nexus between leadership, spirituality and discernment, particularly with regard to a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The book spells out, first of all, what our VUCA world entails, and how it affects businesses, organizations, and societies as a whole. Secondly, the book develops new perspectives on the processes of leadership, spirituality, and discernment, particularly in this VUCA context. These perspectives are interdisciplinary in nature, and are informed by e.g. management studies, leadership theory, philosophy, and theology.
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Leadership in Independent Africa, Six Decades On
: The Blended Representation Principle as a Cause for Afro-Optimism
(author: Kofi Vincent Anani)
Publisher: Zed Books
Year of publication: 2024
FREE DOWNLOAD: http://doi.org/10.5040/9781350379701
In this open access book, Kofi Anani finds ways forward through the Blended Representation Principle (BRP), which stipulates that power be shared between leaders selected on the basis of Western-democratic ideals and leaders chosen on the basis of traditional African norms and conventions. Drawing on his research and professional experience, Anani shows how incorporating the BRP into African leadership and governance thinking would encourage more voluntary public participation in politics, guarantee transparency and accountability in decision-making, particularly when it comes to the use of public resources, and ultimately encourage more public confidence in leaders. Anani also provides concrete suggestions for how to achieve all this, not through quick fixes, but rather through educational campaigns directed at public officials and through new communities of learning and practice designed to champion the BRP in villages, schools, workplaces, places of worship, and other social organizations.
This book is a must-read for all scholars and students of postcolonial governance and leadership, and it is of keen interest to anyone concerned with how Western-style state-making might ultimately find a balance with other, indigenous modes of social organization.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
CONTENTS PAGE:
List of Tables
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
About the Author
1. An Overview
2. Analytical Framework
3. Existential Realities
4. Fundamentals of the Leadership and Governance Conundrum
5. Too Blessed to be Chasing the Wind
6. The Concept of BRP
7. Conceptual Interconnections with the ideals of Transerve Leadership
8. Operationalizing BRP
9. Continental Dimensions of BRP: The African Traditional Leadership Union (ATLU)
10. BRP-Inspired Wisdom on the Practice of Democracy in Africa
11. Epilogue: An Alternate Solutions Pathway
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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About the Author:
Kofi Anani is a Managing Partner of the Anani-Afele Network, a "think-and-do-tank" dedicated to utilizing blended knowledge for transformative development in Africa. He has spent more than two decades working in international development. He worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.; he worked in Development Finance at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo; and he served for five years as Executive Secretary of the Ghana Refugees Board (2015 - 2020).
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Principles of Leadership & Management
(Author: Laura Radtke)
Publisher: Fanshawe College Pressbooks
Year of publication: 2022
A guide to the concepts and skills necessary for the people-centric leadership and management necessary amidst the volatility of today’s globally connected organizations.
This book is a cloned version of Principles of Management by [Authors removed at request of original publisher], published using Pressbooks by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing edition, 2015. This edition adapted from a work originally produced in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that it not receive attribution. under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.
Contents page:
Acknowledgements
Changes from Adapted Text
About this Book
Ch. 1: Introduction to Principles of Leadership and Management
1.1 Introduction to Principles of Leadership and Management
1.2 Case in Point: Doing Good as a Core Business Strategy
1.3 Who Are Managers?
1.4 Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy
1.5 Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling
1.6 Economic, Social, and Environmental Performance
1.7 Performance of Individuals and Groups
1.8 Katz's Three Skills
1.9 Your "Principles of Leadership and Management" Survivor’s Guide
1.10 Gauge-Discover-Reflect
1.11 Key Terms
1.12 Knowledge Check
Ch. 2: Personality and Leadership
2.1 Personality and Leadership Introduction
2.2 Case in Point: SAS Institute Invests in Employees
2.3 Personality and Values
2.4 Perception
2.5 Work Attitudes
2.6 The Interactionist Perspective: The Role of Fit
2.7 Work Behaviors
2.8 Emotional Intelligence
2.9 Developing Your Positive Attitude Skills
2.10 Developing Leadership Skills
2.11 Key Terms
2.12 Knowledge Check
Ch. 3: Leadership Approaches
3.1 Leading People and Organizations
3.2 Case in Point: Indra Nooyi Draws on Vision and Values to Lead
3.3 The Nature of Leadership
3.4 The Leadership Process
3.5 Paths to Leadership and Influence
3.6 Who Is a Leader? Trait Approaches to Leadership
3.7 What Do Leaders Do? Behavioral Approaches to Leadership
3.8 What Is the Role of the Context? Contingency Approaches to Leadership
3.9 Substitutes for and Neutralizers of Leadership
3.10 Key Terms
3.11 Knowledge Check
Ch. 4: Values-Based Leadership and Contemporary Approaches
4.1 Values-Based and Contemporary Approaches to Leadership
4.2 Case in Point: Hanna Andersson Corporation Changes for Good
4.3 Contemporary Approaches to Leadership
4.4 Vulnerability in Leadership
4.5 Contemporary Principles of Leadership and Management
4.6 Global Trends
4.7 Globalization and Principles of Leadership
4.8 Developing Your Own Values-Based Leadership Skills
4.9 Developing Your Charismatic, Servant and Authentic Leadership Skills
4.10 Key Terms
4.11 Knowledge Check
Ch. 5: Leadership in Communication and Decision Making
5.1 Communication and Case in Point: Edward Jones Communicates Caring
5.2 Understanding Communication
5.3 Communication Barriers
5.4 Different Types of Communication and Communication Channels
5.5 Decision Making
5.6 Faulty Decision Making
5.7 Decision Making in Groups
5.8 Key Terms
5.9 Knowledge Check
Ch. 6: Leadership Mission and Strategy
6.1 Mission and Strategy
6.2 The Roles of Mission, Vision, and Values
6.3 Mission and Vision Throughout the Organization
6.4 Creativity and Passion
6.5 Stakeholders
6.6 Crafting Mission and Vision Statements
6.7 Developing Your Personal Mission and Vision
6.8 Strategic Management
6.9 How Do Strategies Emerge?
6.10 Key Terms
6.11 Knowledge Check
Ch. 7: Goals and Motivational Leadership
7.1 Case in Point: Nucor Aligns Company Goals With Employee Goals
7.2 The Nature of Goals and Objectives
7.3 From Management by Objectives to the Balanced Scorecard
7.4 Characteristics of Effective Goals and Objectives
7.5 Using Goals, Objectives and Feedback in Employee Performance Evaluation
7.6 Integrating Goals and Objectives with Corporate Social Responsibility
7.7 Your Personal Balanced Scorecard
7.8 Motivation
7.9 Need-Based Theories of Motivation
7.10 Process-Based Theories
7.11 Developing Motivation Skills
7.12 Key Terms
7.13 Knowledge Check
Ch. 8: Leadership and the Organization
8.1 Organizational Environment and Culture
8.2 External Environments and Internal Structures
8.3 Organizational Culture
8.4 Case in Point: Google Creates Unique Culture
8.5 Measuring Organizational Culture
8.6 Creating and Maintaining Organizational Culture
8.7 Creating a Culture of Diversity
8.8 Gender and Sexual Orientation
8.9 Case in Point: Uber Pays the Price
8.10 Developing Your Personal Skills: Learning to Fit In
8.11 Key Terms
8.12 Knowledge Check
Ch. 9: Global Leadership
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Importance of International Leadership
9.3 Hofstede’s Cultural Framework
9.4 Cultural Stereotyping and Social Institutions
9.5 The GLOBE Framework
9.6 Cross-Cultural Assignments
9.7 Strategies for Expanding Globally
9.8 The Necessity of Global Markets
9.9 Key Terms
9.10 Knowledge Check
Ch. 10: Leading Teams
10.1 Focus on Teamwork
10.2 Teamwork in the Workplace
10.3 Team Development Over Time
10.4 Things to Consider When Leading Teams
10.5 Opportunities and Challenges to Team Building
10.6 Team Diversity and Multicultural Teams
10.7 Social Networks
10.8 An Introduction to the Lexicon of Social Networks
10.9 How Leaders Can Use Social Networks to Create Value
10.10 Personal, Operational, and Strategic Networks
10.11 Mapping and Your Own Social Network
10.12 Key Terms
10.13 Knowledge Check
Ch. 11: Leading Innovation and Change
11.1 Introduction to Leading Innovation and Change
11.2 Creating an Innovative Culture
11.3 Failure to Innovate
11.4 Social Networks and Innovation
11.5 Organizational Change
11.6 Planning and Executing Change Effectively
11.7 Creating Culture Change
11.8 Building Your Change Management Skills
11.9 Key Terms
11.10 Knowledge Check
References
Ancillary Resources
Versioning History
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Rethinking Leadership
(Authors: Kurt April, Robert Macdonald & Sylvia Vriesendorp)
Publisher: UCT Press
Year of publication: 2013
In the twenty-first century, leaders are having to speak a new language, create fluid organic structures, and recognise organisations as systems with self-renewing capacity.
Rethinking leadership explores what real leadership means, encouraging the reader to look within – examine assumptions and make explicit the trusted mental models, seek out reflective space and embark on the journey of authentic self-expression.
The reader is encouraged to ask such questions as; “What do these issues, these challenges, mean for me and the organisation?” “What action should we take to turn these challenges into limitless possibilities?”
Topics covered in Rethinking leadership include:
Awareness – The Metaskills of the Leader
Openness – The Times are a Changing
Simplicity – New Science and Leadership
Complexity – Uncertainty and Change
Connectivity – Communication, Conversation and Dialogue
Ambiguity – Leadership Incongruities, Tensions and Paradoxes
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Steward Leadership
: A Maturational perspective
(Authors: Kurt April, Julia Kukard & Kai Peters)
Publisher: UCT Press
Year of publication: 2013
Steward leadership is a form of leadership which focuses on others, the community and society at large, rather than the self. Many senior leaders and executives across the globe appear to move into a steward leadership mindset when their careers have matured, or when they are in the second half of their life- or career cycles, whereas executives of around 30 years old are typically focused on their personal self-interests.
The authors of Steward leadership: A maturational perspective, who teach MBA and executive courses around the world, conducted research into the aspects of steward leadership to see if they could develop the tools to mould steward leaders at an earlier age. Working with MBA students, they tested nine stewardship attributes: personal vision, personal mastery, vulnerability and maturity, risk-taking and experimentation, mentoring, raising awareness, shared vision, valuing diversity and delivering results. The authors also interviewed industry leaders internationally to gain qualitative insights into the concept of steward leadership.
The result is a practical framework for steward leadership which provides the theoretical and consulting tools with which organisations can develop stewards, whether through training programmes, mentoring programmes, coaching initiatives and/or personal development practices. The authors present steward leadership as a more viable alternative to current leadership concepts, providing a roadmap by which current and potential leaders can be guided into developing their leadership abilities – and become the mature stewards of the future.
Contents page:
Introduction: Watching, looking and wondering
Finding the threads
Nine pathways to steward leadership
Assessing yourself
Maturity, the crucible of stewardship
The emergence of a mature steward leader
Achieving maturation
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Transformative Leadership In African Contexts
: Strategies for Social Change
Publisher: HSRC Press
Year of publication: 2024
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The focus of transformative leadership is on changing power structures and dynamics in society such that people’s access to livelihoods, dignity, rights, and wellbeing are systemically ensured, rather than a focus on institutional or organisational change or individual engagements between leaders and followers. Transformative leadership takes as its unit of influence wider social, political and material issues. In the words of Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river and find out why they are falling in”. Through a series of nuanced case studies, the authors set out how contemporary leaders on the African continent navigate complexity, chaos, struggle, temptation, controversy, and roadblocks, in a context that is both emerging from colonial exploitation and domination, and that suffers from a myriad of post-colonial ills and aspirations. Authors integrate past practices, considering the cultural heritages that animate action, the political heroes (and villains), and historical thinkers that have encouraged current leadership practices and warned against others. They also shine a spotlight on the many ways in which leadership challenges for the future are anticipated. These include the rapid social, technological, and cultural shifts, and struggles around gender, mobility, and commercial practices already sweeping the continent. Multiple essays offer markers for the way ahead for a new generation who must lead and find their own path to the future.
CONTENTS PAGE:
PART 1 INTRODUCING TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP AND ITS PRECURSORS:
From beating the odds to changing the odds: Developing a shared understanding of what is meant by ‘transformative leadership’ / Sharlene Swartz
Academic understandings of transformative leadership / Tarryn De Kock and Sharlene Swartz
Leadership and identity in pre-colonial African contexts: A retrospective account / Matthews Makgamatha
PART 2 TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP IN EVERYDAY CONTEXTS:
The spirit of Kanju: Young Africans amplifying leadership through documentary film work / Alude Mahali and Eugene Paramoer
Blockchain applications: A pathway to decentralised, autonomous and transformative leadership / Krish Chetty
Transformative leadership from abroad: Maggy Barankitse and the Burundian refugee community / Gérard Birantamije
What amaXhosa leadership practices offer to the discourse on transformative leadership / Olwam Mnqwazi
Ubuntu as a resource for transformative leadership in Southern Africa / Norman Chivasa
PART 3 LEADERSHIP AND GENDER/FEMINISM:
Women and leadership in African contexts: A review / Relebohile Moletsane
We should all be African feminists: Feminism as an integral part of transformative leadership / Lauryn Mwale
PART 4 LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS:
Iterations of transformative leadership for higher education in Africa / Ibrahim Oanda
Transformative leadership in resource constrained schools in South Africa / Andrea Juan and Sylvia Hannan
Learning transformative leadership through student activism in Kenya / Nathan Oyori Ogechi
Using transformative leadership to ‘nibble at resilient colonialism’: An autoethnographic account of student-faculty experiences / One Pusumane and Jess Auerbach
PART 5 LEADERSHIP AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMMES ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT:
Walking the talk: Shaping a transformative approach to evaluation of leadership fellowship programmes / Barbara Klugman
Climbing the hill: The burden of development placed on scholarship recipients / Sepiso Dean Mwamelo
Leadership for whom? Interrogating the effectiveness of leadership programs in Africa / Ajibola Adigun
Emergent-decolonial development and youth-focused leadership development programmes / Rekgotsofetse Chikane and Monique Atouguia
PART 6 POLITICAL LEADERSHIP:
Transforming the political: Towards a transformative concept of political leadership in Africa / Tarryn De Kock and Anye Nyamnjoh
Transformative leadership in Africa: Lessons from Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s leadership stints in Liberia / Kazeem Ajasa Badaru and Emmanuel Adu
Transformative leadership in unconventional terrain: Examining the personality, values, and vision of Jerry John Rawlings of Ghana / Emmanuel Ampomah
PART 7 APPLYING UBUNTU TO TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP:
Transformative disability leadership in the Global South: Insights from ubuntu philosophy / Precious Muzite
Ubuntu leadership in a technological age / Katleho Mokoena
Transformative social innovation leadership, an Ubuntu infused approach for future African public sector leaders / Maréve Biljohn
PART 8 A CALL TO ACTION:
A forward-looking ethics of transformative leadership: Re-building societies in the 21st century / Catherine Odora Hoppers and Crain Soudien
Tame, erode, rupture or exit: Strategies for transformative change / Sharlene Swartz
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"Important, exciting, coherent, and comprehensive.... Each chapter is imbued with African cultures and traditions, with indigenous knowledge and languages to recreate and interpret transformative leadership in ways that are thoughtful [and] insightful."
―Carolyn M. Shields, Wayne State University
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