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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Sprache: Englisch
How can you inspire your employees to the high levels of engagement that drive strong results across the board?
Drawing on over 30 years of research and data from more than two million constituents around the world, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge, expand on their work with The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to create a new metric—Positive Workplace Attitudes—addressing how leaders affect employee engagement. Their research shows how positive feelings about being part of the workplace strongly influence people's willingness to apply discretionary effort to their work. People put forth much more effort for their best leaders and very little for their worst leaders. Leaders who more frequently exhibit exemplary practices foster engagement and inspire people to go from acceptable to good and even to great.
Filled with new findings from Kouzes and Posner's original research, Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces expands the reach of The Leadership Challenge to address pressing, critical issues around employee engagement, and how leaders can improve it to outperform the competition.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013
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Contents
Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces
Leaders Make a Difference
Are Leaders Born or Made?
The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
What Is a Great Workplace?
The Five Practices: How Leaders Make a Positive Difference
Great Leadership = Great Workplaces = Great Results
Notes
About the Authors
Finding Your Courage to Lead
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Other Titles by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
Making Extraordinary Things Happen in Asia: Applying The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It
The Truth About Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know
A Leader’s Legacy
Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others
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GREAT LEADERSHIP CREATES GREAT WORKPLACES
Whether you are an eighty-year-old corporate icon, a high-tech start-up with the ink still wet on the incorporation papers, a government department, or a nonprofit agency, nothing is certain today. Trust in corporations, government, and institutions in general keeps eroding, and there’s no indication that this trend is going to change its direction anytime soon. Besides that, employee commitment and engagement have taken a dip, and those who are still employed are indicating that they’d jump ship when things improve. There’s no doubt about it. We live in challenging times.
As surprising as it may sound, in these challenging and difficult times we’re likely to see some of the most extraordinary leadership we’ve seen in decades. Leaders, it turns out, don’t do their best when they’re maintaining the status quo or when they feel comfortable. They do their best when faced with adversity, crisis, setbacks, and great difficulty. Challenge is the opportunity for greatness.
Great results in the marketplace can only come about from making extraordinary things happen within your organization. The key is great leadership. Indeed, there is overwhelming evidence that great leadership creates great workplaces; and, in turn, great workplaces create great marketplace results. The late management guru Peter Drucker said, “Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.” So if you want better results in your marketplace, ensure that you are working on fostering great leadership within your organization.
In making the case that great leadership is the key to creating great workplaces, we will present evidence that leadership makes a meaningful difference in people’s engagement at work and in the performance of the organization. We’ll do this by exploring what the difference looks like in terms of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®—the practices that we’ve found in our research lead to extraordinary results. And within this framework, we will provide you with practical ideas and actions you can take to become a better leader and foster a great workplace.
One additional note: developing leadership competency isn’t just an issue for any one function, industry, or nation. It’s a global issue. Studies show that over three-quarters of executives around the world indicate that the most critical people issue related to their organization’s success is leadership development, especially as it relates to developing their future pipeline of leaders.1 These executives are even more concerned because the baby boomer generation is quickly approaching retirement, a consequence of which is that vast numbers of experienced leaders are expected to retire or to step down from full-time employment by 2020, creating a leadership vacuum. A lack of leadership bench strength is of great concern to organizations worldwide.
