Improving Organizational Effectiveness through Transformational Leadership (Paperback)

by Bernard M. Bass (Editor), Bruce J Avolio (Editor)

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Product Description
How can managers bring about optimum performance from the individuals in their organizations? What leadership techniques produce the most effective organizations? This book examines the theory and practice of the dynamic and innovative style of transformational leadership. The transformational leader encourages followers by acting as a role model, motivating through inspiration, stimulating intellectually, and giving individualized consideration to their needs and goals. Chapters explore how transformational leadership affects important issues in today's organizations such as delegation, teamwork, decision making, total quality management and corporate reorganization.

About the Author
Bruce J. Avolio, Ph.D., is the Clifton Chair in Leadership at the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Avolio is also Director of the Gallup Leadership Institute, Co-Director of the UNL/Gallup MBA/MA program in Executive Leadership, and Director of the Ph.D. program with a specialization in leadership at the College of Business Administration at UNL. Prior to joining the College of Business Administration at UNL, he was the Co-Director of the Center for Leadership Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Dr. Avolio has an international reputation as a researcher in leadership. He has consulted with senior leaders in public and private organizations in North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. His research and consulting includes work with the militaries of the United States of America, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, Israel, and South Africa. Avolio has published six books and more than 100 articles on leadership.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (October 20, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803952368
• ISBN-13: 978-0803952362
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #674,901 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Four-Point Model for Transformational Leadership, October 10, 2000

By	Patrick W. O'Hara "taparaho" (Salt Point, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The authors of this book provide an easy to implement model of transformational leadership based on four points, which they call the four I's. The focus of their full-range leadership model is a long-term transformational change, as opposed to short-term transactional models. The author's model reflects the importance of leadership and vision in creating organizational "buy-in," driving competitive change, and creating self-sustaining organizations through the growth of like-minded leaders.

I found this book to be well-written and easy to read. The authors apply the model to a wide-range of organizational situations. The only limitation to this book that I found, was a question that I posed to the model, which questions the validity of the model if the culture does nor support the leadership and vision. I suppose though, that the authors would counter argue that if the culture did not support the leadership and vision, that the basis of their model, the four I's were not being implmented properly.