Advancing Relational Leadership Research – A Dialogue Among Perspectives

Advancing Relational Leadership ResearchA Dialogue Among Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Mary Uhl-Bien, Sonia M. Ospina\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781617359217, 978-1617359217\nSynopsis\nLeaders and followers live in a relational worlda world in which leadership occurs in complex webs of relationships and dynamically changing contexts. Despite this, our theories of leadership are grounded in assumptions of individuality and linear causality. If we are to advance understandings of leadership that have more relevance to the world of practice, we need to embed issues of relationality into leadership studies.\n\nThis volume addresses this issue by bringing together, for the first time, a set of prominent scholars from different paradigmatic and disciplinary perspectives to engage in dialogue regarding how to meet the challenges of relationality in leadership research and practice. Included are cutting edge.