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Offering Training Where It Is Valued Most: How Training Programs for Low-Level Employees Can Increase Your Firm's Productivity and Profits
Heymann, JodyBook Chapter HBS-6031BC-ELeadership and People ManagementCompanies can reap tremendous benefits by offering training to their employees, most directly by improving their workers' job-related skills and productivity. But worldwide, these opportunities are overwhelmingly offered to those who already have an advantage. By implementing successful training programs in your company for your low-level employees-like ESL or literacy training, technical skill building, internal advancement training, or even ext...Starting at €8.20
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Establishing Career Tracks for the Least-Advantaged Workers: How Your Company Wins by Making Advancement Accessible to All
Heymann, JodyBook Chapter HBS-6032BC-ELeadership and People ManagementOne of the most significant yet ironically least common ways of ensuring good working conditions for your lowest-level employees is to provide them with advancement opportunities. While near constant attention is devoted to the career paths of employees with a higher education, few companies pay similar attention to those with limited formal education. This chapter, culled from interviews with workers at all levels of the corporate ladder on six ...Starting at €8.20
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When Does Leadership Matter: A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership
Wasserman, Noam; Anand, Bharat N.; Nohria, NitinBook Chapter HBS-6122BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo what extent does leadership influence organizational performance? In this chapter, Noam Wasserman, Bharat Anand, and Nitin Nohria try to provide a balanced answer to this question. Replicating the variance partitioning method used by Stanley Lieberson and James O'Connor in their 1972 study on leadership and organizational performance, they analyze the performance of more than 500 publicly held U.S. companies (across 42 industries) over a 20-ye...Starting at €8.20
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Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership
Podolny, Joel M.; Khurana, Rakesh; Besharov, MaryaBook Chapter HBS-6123BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe authors of this chapter contend that the study of leadership in organizational theory went awry when interest in leadership became too tightly coupled with organizational performance. Leading organizational theorists in the latter part of the twentieth century, such as Max Weber, Chester Barnard, and Philip Selznick, were not concerned with leadership because of its ability to explain financial performance. Instead, they were concerned with l...Starting at €8.20
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What Is This Thing Called Leadership
Hackman, J. RichardBook Chapter HBS-6124BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the wake of the global economic crisis, society is demanding that the topic of leadership be given urgent attention because leadership strongly influences organizational behavior-not just financial performance. In this chapter, J. Richard Hackman, an expert on organizational psychology, argues that the role of leaders is best understood not in terms of their direct impact on organizational outcomes but through their indirect influence, which s...Starting at €8.20
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Classical Sociological Approaches to the Study of Leadership
Guillen, Mauro F.Book Chapter HBS-6133BC-ELeadership and People ManagementLeadership in organizations, political parties, and nation-states has been the subject of much sociological work since the very inception of the discipline, yet sociologists still disagree on the relationship between leaders and followers, whether leadership is about meaning or domination, and about the performance implications of different leadership styles. This chapter describes the theoretical assumptions and arguments of the four main school...Starting at €8.20
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Power and Leadership
Nye, Joseph S., Jr.Book Chapter HBS-6142BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIn this chapter, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School, considers from a political science perspective the relationship between power and leadership, which he sees as inextricably intertwined. He characterizes power as having both a hard form (coercive) and a soft form (attractive), with each being exercised to some degree by nearly every leader. An effective leader will combine both forms, resulting in what Nye terms "smart...Starting at €8.20
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A Contingency Theory of Leadership
Lorsch, Jay W.Book Chapter HBS-6145BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe idea of a contingency theory of leadership is not new. In the 1960s several scholars, most notably Frederick Fiedler, argued that effective leadership style depended on situational contingencies, such as the nature of the task-specifically, how certain or uncertain it was. But agreement ended there, as researchers and scholars failed to reach a consensus on what leaders' primary tasks were or on which contingency factors influenced them most....Starting at €8.20
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Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation
Hill, Linda A.; Travaglini, Maurizio; Brandeau, Greg; Stecker, EmilyBook Chapter HBS-6161BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo be fit for the future, organizations must be able to innovate boldly and speedily-beyond even their own customers' imaginations. But until we reframe our understanding of what innovation and leadership are all about, innovation will remain an elusive goal in many companies. The authors of this chapter provide insights on leaders of teams or organizations that have produced breakthrough innovations more than once, as well as on leaders who have...Starting at €8.20
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Pursuing Authentic Leadership Development
Avolio, Bruce J.Book Chapter HBS-6169BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThis chapter raises a critical question in the science and practice of leadership: As our population rapidly expands, how can we speed the development of the kind of leadership we will need to promote a sustainable world? Especially in the wake of the global economic crisis (and the accompanying fall from grace of high-ranking leaders in both business and government), the need for "authentic" leaders-those who are both morally unimpeachable and i...Starting at €8.20