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  title info:
    title: Overcoming Workplace Pathologies
    sub title: Principles of Spirit-Based Leadership
  name:
    name part: Fairholm, Gilbert W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 184 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book deals directly with the characteristics of the work relationship the leader builds. It argues that the prevailing work community work culture is intended to help the leader lead but, increasingly it impedes the leader’s work. Leadership is a function of the leader’s values, attitudes, and aspirations—in a word leadership flows from the leader’s spiritual character-defining core essence. However, the author argues that cultural forces coming from both inside and outside the workplace, often designed to promote diversity, inclusivity, and tolerance, have introduced into the work culture values and behavior that are pathological to doing leadership and to the health of work communities. While attractive on the surface, these new values are toxic to the idea of relationship and thus threaten the work community culture, in effect "killing leadership." This book will arm leaders with the tools, resources, and techniques to recognize and overcome workplace pathologies. After reading this book, leaders will: have a complete understanding of the key principles of spirit-based values leadership see clearly that the leader’s values shape both the leader’s one-on-one relationships with coworkers and are at the center of the work culture they create to re-enforce coworker actions and decisions appreciate more fully the power of the ambient work culture to influence coworkers toward leader set values and methods guiding the work community know the toxic effect on doing leadership of introducing non-work values and standards into the work community culture understand the arguments against allowing subgroups of the work community to form and practice values opposed to the values the leader has set for the full group be better prepared to deal with the consequences of countenancing the presence evil, hate and/or fear in the workplace realize that not all coworkers are uniformly honest and truthful and learn ways to counter this behavior and still do the work community’s wo…
  table of contents: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Spiritual Leadership Today -- Chapter 2 What is Leadership? -- Chapter 3 Work Factors that Inhibit Doing Leadership -- Part II Problems and Possible Solutions -- Chapter 4 Leadership and Informal Small Groups.- Chapter 5 Failures of Workplaces in Multiple Competitive Cultures -- Chapter 6 Politically Controlled Speech Shackles Leadership -- Chapter 7 Tolerance -- Chapter 8 Evil -- Chapter 9 Hate -- Chapter 10 Fear -- Chapter 11 Conventional Pathologies -- Chapter 12 Summary and Conclusions. .
  note: by Gilbert W. Fairholm.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  subject:
    topic: Planning
  subject:
    topic: Personnel management
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Human Resource Management
  subject:
    topic: Business Strategy/Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  classification: HF5549-5549.5
  classification: 658.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Management for Professionals
  identifier: 9783319171548
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17154-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 150704
    record change date: 20151204162559.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-17154-8