Volume 6 of the Leadership Symposiasponsored by the Department of Administrative Sciences and College of Business Administration at Southern Illinois University, Carbondalecharts the state of the field of leadership through a judicious mixture of established and emerging scholars.
The text is broken into four parts, with each part containing an Introduction by the editors. Part 1 consists of Leadership and Managerial Behavior as Loosely Coupled Systems for Moving Beyond Establishment Views,” by the editors; The Relevance of Some Studies of Managerial Work and Behavior to Leadership Research,” Rosemary Stewart; Unstructured, Nonparticipant Observation and the Study of Leaders’ Interpersonal Contacts,” Robert S. Bussom, Lars L. Larson, and William M. Vicars; Leaders on Line,” Michael M. Lombardo and Morgan W. McCall, Jr.; and Various Paths Beyond Establishment Views,” Bernard Wilpert.
Part 2 contains Multiplexed Supervision and Leadership,” Fred Dansereau, Jr., Joseph A. Alutto, Steven E. Markham, and MacDonald Dumas; A Theory of Leadership Categorization,” Robert G. Lord, Roseanne J. Foti, and James S. Phillips; Leadership Activation Theory,” John E. Sheridan, Jeffrey L. Kerr, and Michael A. Abelson; and Intensity of Relation, Dyadic-Group Considerations, Cognitive Categorization, and Transformational Leadership,” Bernard M. Bass; Strategies for Dealing with Different Processes in Different Contexts,” Ian Morley, A Multiplexed Response to Bass and Morley,” Fred Dansereau, Jr., Joseph A. Alutto, Steven E. Markham, and MacDonald Dumas; and Properly Categorizing the Commentary,” Roseanne J. Foti, Robert G. Lord, and James S. Phillips.
Part 3 contains SYMLOG and Leadership Theory,” Robert F. Bales and Daniel J. Isenberg; Toward a Macro-Oriented Model of Leadership: An Odyssey,” James G. Hunt and Richard N. Osborn; and Toward a Paradigm Shift in the Study of Leadership,” Henry J. Tosi, Jr.
Essays in part 4 are If You’re Not Serving Bill and Barbara, Then You’re Not Serving Leadership,” Henry Mintzberg; Beyond Establishment Leadership Views: An Epilog,” by the editors; Leadership Research and the European Connection: An Epilog,” Dian-Marie Hosking and James G. Hunt; and Conclusion: The Leadership-Management Controversy Revisited,” Schriesheim, Hunt, and Sekaran.