The Leadership of Organizational Change / Edition 1

by Mark Hughes

Overview

Understanding both leadership and change have been recurrent and popular themes within the business, management and organization studies literature. However, our understanding of leadership and organizational change in combination is far more limited. The Leadership of Organizational Change offers a critical review of the evolution of leadership and organizational change for the past thirty-five years, taking stock of what we know, identifying what we do not know, and establishing how the study of the leadership of change should advance.

In the late seventies and early eighties, as interest in managing and leading change was fuelled by the competitive threat of Asia in general and Japan in particular as perceived by western businesses and governments, Burns (1978) writing in his landmark book Leadership at this time, referred to an intellectual crisis:

"The crisis of leadership today is the mediocrity or irresponsibility of so many of the men and women in power, but leadership rarely rises to the full need for it. The fundamental crisis underlying mediocrity is intellectual. If we know all too much about our leaders, we know far too little about leadership."

While the study of managing change has benefitted from sustained critical scrutiny, particularly in the last decade, it is believed that this is to have been at the expense of critical scrutiny of leading change. The Leadership of Organizational Change critically reviews how the study of leading change has advanced since 1978 and the crisis of intellectual mediocrity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138791770
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/21/2015
Series:	Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark Hughes is a Reader in Organizational Change in the Centre for Research on Management and Employment at Brighton Business School, the University of Brighton, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Appendices Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Leadership and Organizational Change: A 35 Year Review 3. Understanding Organizational Change 4. Leadership Studies 5. A Critical Evaluation of Leadership and Organizational Change 6. Towards The Leadership of Organizational Change Index