Critical leadership : leader-follower dynamics in a public organization / / Paul Evans, John Hassard and Paula Hyde

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465627603321
• Autore: Evans Paul <1943-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-26408-6; 0-203-10800-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Collana: Routledge critical studies in public management ; ; 13; Routledge critical studies in public management ; ; 11
• Altri autori (Persone): HassardJohn <1953->; HydePaula
• Disciplina: 352.23/6
• Soggetti: Public administration; Leadership; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Critical Leadership; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Part I Literature, context, methodology and design; 2 Leadership studies; 3 The public sector in context; 4 Methodological considerations; Part II Field research: data illustrations and interpretations; Introduction to Chapters 5-10; 5 The challenge to leadership and the dynamic of ambiguity; 6 The limitations to leadership and the dynamic of the environment; 7 The negotiation of leadership and the dynamic of resource acquisition; 8 The balance within leadership and the dynamic of symbiosis9 The negotiation of leadership and the dynamic of politics; 10 The agency of followers and the dynamic of game playing; Part III Discussion and conclusions; 11 Discussion and conclusions; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a ""real"" phenomenon. The book offers a ; critical account of the nature of leadership and management in modern organizations. Specifically it examines the forces that affect the influence relationships between leaders and followers in public sector organizational settings and thus, how these relationships inform social influence processes. Although the

The critical philosophy of Hermann Cohen [[electronic resource] =] : La filosofia critica di Hermann Cohen / / Andrea Poma ; translated by John Denton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455260503321
• Autore: Poma Andrea
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1997
• ISBN: 1-4384-1629-6; 0-585-06795-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in Jewish philosophy
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetti: Philosophy, Modern - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-316) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Content""; ""The Interpretation of Kant""; ""1. NEO-KANTIANISM""; ""2. THE TRENDELENBURG-FISCHER DISPUTE""; ""3. THE FIRST EDITION OF KANTS THEORIE DE.'RERFAHRUNG""; ""4. COHEN AND THE DISPUTES OVER THE INTERPRETATION OF KANT""; ""5. KANT'S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY""; ""The Interpretation of Plato""; ""1. THE INITIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION""; ""2. PlATO IN THE HISTORY OF IDEALISM""; ""3. THE THEORY OF IDEAS""; ""4. PLATO'S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY""; ""5. THE INTERPRETATION OF PlATO'S THEORY OF IDEAS IN THE POST-1878 WORKS""""The New Interpretation of Kant and the Definition of Critical Idealism""; ""1. FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND EDITION OF KANTS THEORIE DER ERFAHRUNG""; ""2. THE INTERPRETATION OF LEIBNIZ""; ""3. THE PRINCIPLE OF INTENSIVE MAGNITUDE IN KANT""; ""4. ; THE THING-IN-ITSELF AND IDEAS""; ""5. THE NEW MEANING OF CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN KANT""; ""Critical Idealism""; ""1. FROM TRANSCENDENTAL TO CRITICAL IDEALISM""; ""2. SCIENTIFIC IDEALISM""; ""3. MATERIALISM, SPIRITUALISM, AND SKEPTICISM""; ""4. IDEALISM WITHOUT A SUBJECT?""; ""5. ETHICAL IDEALISM""""6. EUDEMONISM AND PANTHEISM""; ""7. AESTHETIC IDEALISM""; ""8. CRITICAL IDEALISM AND ECLECTICISM""; ""9. EXCURSUS: ROMANTICISM: FICHTE, SCHELLING, HEGEL""; ""Logic""; ""1. FROM THE CRITIQUE OF KNOWLEDGE TO THE LOGIC OF PURE KNOWLEDGE""; ""2. THE CONCEPT OF PURITY""; ""3. LOGIC AND CRITIQUE""; ""4. PRODUCTIVE AND REPRESENTATIVE THOUGHT""; ""5. THE TRANSCENDE.NTAL CHARACTER OF COHEN'S LOGIC""; ""6. TRANSCENDENTAL AND DIALECTICAL METHODS""; ""7. THE LOGIC OF JUDGMENT""; ""8. FROM ORIGIN TO CONCEPT""; ""9. ORIGIN""; ""10. TRUTH""; ""Ethics""; ""1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF COHEN'S INTERPRETATION OF KANT'S ETHICS""""2. COHEN'S JUDGMENT ON KANT IN ETHIK DES REINEN WILLENS""; ""3. THE PROBLEMS OF COHEN'S ETHICS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY""; ""4. THE CRITICAL FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM OF MAN""; ""5. THE CONTRIBUTION OF ETHICS TO THE CRITICAL CONCEPTION OF TRUTH""; ""Aesthetics, Psychology, and Critical System""; ""1. THE AESTHETICS OF PURE FEELING""; ""2. PSYCHOLOGY""; ""3. THE CRITICAL SYSTEM""; ""The Philosophy of Religion and the System of Philosophy""; ""1. CONTINUITY AND TURNING POINT: THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND THE SYSTEM IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY""""2. THE RELIGION OF REASON AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE""; ""3. RATIONAL RELIGION AND CONSTRUCTNE METHOD""; ""4. THE PECULIARITY OF RELIGION AS REGARDS ETHICS""; ""5. THE PECULIARITY OF RELIGION AS REGARDS THE SYSTEM""; ""6. THE CENTRALITY OF ETHICS IN THE SYSTEM""; ""7. TRUTH, GOD, AND BEING IN COHEN'S ETHICS""; ""8. THE IDEA OF GOD AS A REGULATIVE IDEA AND AS A CONSTITUTIVE PRINCIPLE""; ""The Uniqueness of God and Correlation""; ""1. THE UNIQUENESS OF GOD""; ""2. CREATION""; ""3. GOD AS ORIGIN AND THE TEACHING OF GOD'S NEGATM: ATTRIBUTES""