Leadership Dynamics

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Leadership Dynamics is for leaders and aspiring leaders who want to learn more about the practicalities of the leader-follower relationship and the concepts of effective leadership. Emphasizing the transactional view of leadership as a two-way process of influence, it covers recent research findings (with more than 300 citations) and highlights such crucial topics as attaining and maintaining the leader role and making needed changes.

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Personnel Psychology ...engagingly written with many references to real world issues. Yet, very extensive citations to research and theory clearly demonstrate the substance behind the thesis...excellent chapter summaries help greatly to organize the material. Academy of Management Review ...offers worthwhile insights into a fuller understanding of the leadership process. George C. Homans Harvard University A very good and wise book, presenting in brief compass all of the principal results of research in the field of leaders and leadership, and using good sense and knowledge of the world in evaluating these results. It packs a lot of value. Irving L. Janis Yale University Leadership Dynamics deserves a wide audience, especially among men and women in leadership roles and those who aspire to such roles. Unlike glib how-to-do-it books, this one presents a comprehensive review of cogent research in social psychology and related behavioral sciences. M. Brewster Smith University of California, Santa Cruz ...a fine book -- a remarkably successful integration of the literature and guide to it...I come away from it feeling a good deal better about what we have learned about leadership. Wilbert J. McKeachie University of Michigan One of the nicest blends of science and practice that I've seen. Hollander takes the empirical data and theoretical positions of social psychology and translates them into practical advice to those involved with leadership.

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Edwin P. Hollander has written extensively on leadership and related topics in social psychology. He is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has also served as Provost of Social Sciences. A Columbia Ph.D., he began his leadership research while on duty as a navel aviation psychologist, and has taught at Carnegie-Mellon, Washington (St. Louis), and American universities, with visiting appointments at Istanbul, Wisconsin, Harvard, and Oxford universities. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Hollander is former president of its Division of General Psychology.