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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807024703321

Autore

Fairholm Gilbert W

Titolo

Perspectives on Leadership : From the Science of Management to Its Spiritual Heart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, : ABC-CLIO, 2000

ISBN

1-282-57360-8

9786612573606

0-313-39064-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

658.4092

Soggetti

Leadership -- Moral and ethical aspects

Leadership -- Religious aspects

Management -- Moral and ethical aspects

Management -- Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Leadership as Management; Part II: Leadership Excellence; Part III: Values Leadership; Part IV: Trust Leadership; Part V: The Spiritural Heart of Leadership; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In tracing the intellectual roots of business leadership over the last one hundred years, award winning author Gilbert W. Fairholm argues that until recently, spirit and soul have been absent from the major models. After outlining the elements of the five major ideas about leadership, he goes on to define and make operational a new focus that must exist in order to truly understand the leaders' role in relation to workers.||The study begins with scientific management and traces the evolution of leadership ideas through the quality movement, on to values-, culture-, and trust-based leadership m