Biblical Principles of Leading and Managing Employees

• Main Author: Winston, Bruce E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Christian Faith Perspectives in Leadership and Business
• Subjects: Business-Religious aspects.; Organization.; Planning.; Theology.; Faith, Spirituality and Business.; Christian Theology.

This book examines the scriptural concepts that apply to leading and managing people. It begins with a chapter that contrasts leaders, managers, and administrators and the roles they each play. The book then presents the seven virtues from the Beatitudes and how these virtues result in leaders and m...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Contrast leader, manager, and administrator
• 2. Leadership Style as an Outcome of Motive: A Contingency 'State' Rather than 'Trait' Concept
• 3. Applications from the Mountaintop
• 4. Harvesting the Fruit of Agapao Leadership
• 5. The virtue of Love: A foundation for leadership
• 6. The Four 'Leadership' Faces of Ezekiel 1, Ezekiel 10, and Revelation 4 Paralleled by the Four Gospels
• 7. The Leadership Styles of Jesus as Found in the Four Gospels
• 8. Compensation
• 9. Leadership According to Proverbs 31
• 10. Stepping out of the way when it is time to leave - Ecclesiastes 3:1
• Conclusion.