In this book, some of the world's leading scholars come together to describe their thinking and research on the topic of the psychology of leadership. Most of the chapters were originally presented as papers at a research conference held in 2001 at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. The contributions span traditional social psychological areas, as well as organizational theory; examining leadership as a psychological process and as afforded by organizational constraints and opportunities. The editors' goal was not to focus the chapters on a single approach to the stud.

Introduction : new approaches to the psychology of leadership / David M. Messick and Roderick M. Kramer -- Part I. Conceptions of leadership -- The cultural ecology of leadership : an analysis of popular leadership books / Michelle C. Bligh and James R. Meindl -- Social identity and leadership / Michael A. Hogg -- On the psychological exchange between leaders and followers / David M. Messick -- The psychodynamics of leadership : Freud's insights and their vicissitudes / George R. Goethals -- Part II. Effectiveness of leadership -- Rethinking team leadership or Teams leaders are not music directors / J. Richard Hackman -- Leadership as group regulation / Randall S. Peterson and Kristin J. Behfar -- Process-based leadership : how do leaders lead? / Tom R. Tyler -- Claiming authority : negotiating challenges for women leaders / Hannah R. Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn -- Why David sometimes wins : strategic capacity in social movements / Marshall Ganz -- Part III. Consequences of leadership -- The perception of conspiracy : leader paranoia as adaptive cognition / Roderick M. Kramer and Dana Gavrieli -- Leadership and the psychology of power / Joe C. Magee, Deborah H. Gruenfeld, Dacher J. Keltner, and Adam D. Galinsky -- The demise of leadership : death positivity biases in posthumous impressions of leaders / Scott T. Allison and Dafna Eylon -- Part IV: Commentary -- When leadership matters and when it does not : a commentary / Suzanne Chan and Arthur P. Brief.

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