Chapter 1 Common Sense, Science, and Leadership -- chapter 2 The Working Self-Concept and Behavior -- chapter 3 Level and Self-Concept -- chapter 4 Temporary and Enduring Effects of Leaders -- chapter 5 Generating a Mental Representation of a Leader's Behavior: Linking Perception to WSC Activation -- chapter 6 Leadership and Emotions -- chapter 7 Leadership and Organizational Justice with Christopher Selenta -- chapter 8 The Value Added by a Second-Order, Subordinate-Focused Approach to Understanding Leadership Processes
Summary
Presenting a follower-centered perspective on leadership, this book focuses on followers as the direct determinant of leadership effects because it is generally through follower reactions and behaviors that leadership attempts succeed or fail. Therefore, leadership theory needs to be articulated with a theory of how followers create meaning from leadership acts and how this meaning helps followers self-regulate in specific contexts. In this book, an attempt is made to develop such a theory, maintaining that the central construct in this process is the self-identity of followers. In developing
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-236) and index
