Discusses the effects of inadequate leadership on productivity in the American work force and, based on interviews with effective leaders in private and public organizations, identifies four competencies exhibited by these leaders. The concept of empowerment as the collective effect of leadership and its positive impact on workers are described.…

Leadership involves maintaining a balance of the variables which comprise leadership. Love and fear, types of power, success and effectiveness, and driving and restraining forces are discussed as sources of the creative tension a leader uses to influence others. (MT)

Tomorrow's managers will have to combine traits traditionally associated with one sex or the other. Effective managers will be those who are able to nurture and shape employee behavior and balance concern for people with concern for the bottom line. (JOW)

Discusses Japanese management from the perspective of the complex relationship between Japanese culture and their practice of lifelong employment, shared authority in decision making, and dissolution of many of the privileges of rank. (Author)

Discusses the importance of presenting a set of basic skills to beginning group leaders. Six basic skills are discussed: cutting off, drawing out, holding the focus, shifting the focus, use of eyes, and tying things together. (Author/JAC)

The more complex society gets, the more sophisticated leadership must become. This book is about how leaders can focus on certain key change themes that will allow them to lead effectively under messy conditions. Chapter 1 identifies theoretical reasons why change occurs as it does. They include moral purpose, understanding change, developing…

Only in the last few years have researchers in the United Kingdom focused their attention upon improving "failing" or "ineffective" schools. While there is much contemporary interest in schools in difficulty, few research studies have focused exclusively upon leadership practices and approaches. This study's prime aim was to…

To better understand the relationship of the morale of Extension agents and their perceptions of the leader behavior of the county agent chairman, 201 Georgia county Extension agents from 68 counties were studied. It was determined that agents' morale and leader behavior are significantly related. (AG)

Judgement Analysis was the instrument used to assess firemen's attitudes toward leadership roles; five tables of statistical data were presented (BB)

An assistant principal's humorous philosophy of cowardice". (SP)

No matter what variables of personal leadership style may exist, certain constant qualities mark the effective principal. Since accountability presupposes effectiveness, you may wish to check your leadership traits against those discussed here. (Editor)

An administrator and a theoretician react to a previous article by Hannah attempting to bridge the gap between theory and practice in educational administration. The authors find Hannah's approach to the development of philosophies leading to a more humane administrative style disappointing. (Author/JM)