Synopses & Reviews
Executive leadership is critically important to understanding the workings and performance of organizations, yet it is a topic that is usually ignored by mainstream leadership research. Leadership and Information Processing provides a much-needed analysis of this crucial element of organizational behaviour.
Robert G. Lord and Karen J. Maher examine how executives make decisions and how decision acceptance is constrained by the leadership perceptions of others. Focussing in particular on leadership and social perceptions, perceptions of female leaders, organizational culture, and the effects of executive succession. Leadership and Information Processing offers crucial information for students, researchers and teachers of mangement, business, organizational behavior and organizational/social psychology.
Synopsis
Leadership and Information Processing focuses on understanding how executives make decisions and how decision acceptance is constrained by the leadership perceptions of others. Both executive decisions and leadership perceptions are viewed as continuous, reciprocal, social-cognitive processes that must be understood within a historical and cultural context.
This book is accessible to beginning students of leadership, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and social cognition. The integrative information processing framework advances thinking on several topics relating to leadership, including: leadership and social perceptions; perceptions of female leaders; dyadic leadership; organizational culture; effects of executive succession; internal and external executive leadership; the role of leaders in organizational change; and traits relating to effective executive leadership.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-330) and indexes.