The Image of Leadership

Isabelle My Hanh Derungs
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Isabelle My Hanh Derungs: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Chapter 6 in Trans-Cultural Leadership for Transformation, 2010, pp 169-185 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In recent years an increasing number of centers and consulting firms have been springing up on the market. Books are filling shelves; guidelines of change management are offered in multiple varieties. Although leadership resounds throughout the countries and companies, leadership seems to remain more a concept in the mind or wishful thinking. In financial crisis, cost-saving measures often cut development programs and processes in the belief that people are by nature mature enough to make decisions for long-term survival with regard to the community and environment they live and work with as well being responsible for. This chapter is a small snapshot of how a few managers perceived leadership in the 21st century. It is more a story drawing a draft represented by a quick survey conducted online with managers at different levels and in different practice fields. The aim of the survey is to design “the image of leadership” revealed by the managers’ opinions. The results can be used as suggesting indicators for the construction of a “would-be” leadership and give some ideas where the focus of development leadership competencies could be. Within the limited time condition, it is by no means the aim of the survey to observe the managers’ leadership styles in their organizations in process, which would provide, of course, additional and essential knowledge about any leadership style in practice and reality.

Keywords: Transformational Leadership; Organization Member; Leadership Style; International Field; Female Manager (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230304185_7

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