Executive Leadership: A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity

Achieving decisive, accountable, value–adding, managerial leadership is critical to effective organizations. Jaques and Clement approach this leadership question in an entirely new way.
By clarifying the meaning of leadership within the organizational structure. they show that all managers must have leadership accountability, and that there con be no such thing as an effective manager who does not effectively discharge that accountability.
It is in this analysis of what makes for effective managerial leadership that Executive Leadership is at its most radical. Jaques and Clement reject the notion that particular groups of personality qualities and traits characterize effective leaders and instead focus on the requisite organizational structure for managerial leadership to occur.
Executive Leadership is a refreshingly practical approach to the development of decisive managerial leaders at all levels of the organization. It is essential reading for all concerned with organization development, leadership and human resource management.

Spis treści:
Foreword: Requisite Leadership – Managing Complexity by Ronnie Lessem.
Preface.
Special Acknowledgement.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: Concepts and Principles: .
1. The Demystification of Leadership.
2. Human Nature at Work.
3. Role Complexity and Task Complexity.
4. Basic Concepts of Organizational Structure.
Part II: Requisite Practices:.
5. Task Assigning Role Relationships (TARRs).
6. Managerial Leadership.
7. Supervisory Leadership.
8. Project Teams and Expert Leadership.
9. Manager–Once–Removed (MOR) Leadership Accountability.
10. Organizational Leadership.
11. Managerial Leadership Development Program.
Outline and Summary.
Bibliography.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Elliott Jaques continues the development of his comprehensive theory–based system of organizational st ructure and managerial processes, based on more that 46 years of practical field work in industry and commerce, government and health services, in the Church of England and in the US Army. He is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Brunel University, England, and is Visiting Research Professor of Management Science at George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Stephen D. Clement has spent fifteen years in the field of leadership development in the US Army where he was instrumental in developing policy and doctrine for leadership training. He is currently the president of Organizational Design Inc, of Boerne, Texas, where he consults for international corporations as well as the US Army on applying organizational design principles.

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Achieving decisive, accountable, value–adding, managerial leadership is critical to effective organizations. Jaques and Clement approach this leadership question in an entirely new way.
By clarifying the meaning of leadership within the organizational structure. they show that all managers must have leadership accountability, and that there con be no such thing as an effective manager who does not effectively discharge that accountability.
It is in this analysis of what makes for effective managerial leadership that Executive Leadership is at its most radical. Jaques and Clement reject the notion that particular groups of personality qualities and traits characterize effective leaders and instead focus on the requisite organizational structure for managerial leadership to occur.
Executive Leadership is a refreshingly practical approach to the development of decisive managerial leaders at all levels of the organization. It is essential reading for all concerned with organization development, leadership and human resource management.