Leadership: A New Synthesis

by James G. Hunt

Book Overview

Finalist for the Academy of Management Best Book Award, 1992 "The Hunt book charts new waters in the study of leadership. . . . Achieves its purpose quite well. . . . Provides a highly impressive review of new developments in the study of leadership along with conceptual mechanisms for the integration of objectivist and subjectivist methodologies for the understanding of leadership in the context of large systems. . . . For the student of leadership,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803937679
• ISBN13: 9780803937673
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This book goes beyond traditional leadership,A valuable resource for leadership scholars and practit

Covering a wide range of literature outside the traditional leadership for example systems theory, philosohy of science and desing analysis, there are many implications on this research 1.- at the top leadership becomes organizational - Instead of thinking face to face interactions here the concern is mission definition, strategy setting and organizational desing, thus the organizational and environmental factors become very important. 2.-Differences of complexity at diffent levels and the way we view various aspects of effectineness at each level. 3.- Organizational and individual transformation and change. 4.-The broaden knowledge orientation has implications for the way we understand the reality of leadership. Very clear written and easy to follow, part one emphazise on knowledge and each chapter goes in logical secuence to part two exploring the multilevel model and each interacting factors.