Leadership and Information Processing: Linking Perceptions and Performance

by Robert G. Lord, Karen J. Maher

Overview

Executive leadership is critically important to understanding the workings and performance of organizations, yet it is a topic that is usually ignored by mainstream leadership research. Leadership and Information Processing provides a much-needed analysis of this crucial element of organizational behaviour.
Robert G. Lord and Karen J. Maher examine how executives make decisions and how decision acceptance is constrained by the leadership perceptions of others. Focussing in particular on leadership and social perceptions, perceptions of female leaders, organizational culture, and the effects of executive succession. Leadership and Information Processing offers crucial information for students, researchers and teachers of mangement, business, organizational behavior and organizational/social psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134858514
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/26/2002
Series:	People and Organizations
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	816 KB

About the Author

Karen J. Maher, Robert G. Lord

Table of Contents

List of Tables. List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Series Editor's Introduction. Part I: Leadership and Information Processing. Part II: Perceptual and Social Processes. Part III: Leadership and Organizational Performance. Part IV: Satbility, Change, and Information Processing. Bibliography. About the Authors. Index.

Editorial Reviews

'Lord and Maher have written an important argument. To wrestle with that argument is to become re-energized around issues of leadership' - Leadership Quarterly

'Leadership and Information Processing is a worthwhile addition to the leadership bookshelf. It represents a gathering together of cognitive viewpoints in understanding leadership, and it makes a strong statement about the relevance of those viewpoints.' - Academy of Management Review

'Lord and Maher have attempted, at last, to get away from traditional approaches to understanding approaches to understanding leadership which tend to examine leaders in isolation from their environment.' - Prabhu Guptara, Financial Times

'Lord and Maher have written an important argument. To wrestle with that argument is to become re-energized around issues of leadership' - Leadership Quarterly

'Leadership and Information Processing is a worthwhile addition to the leadership bookshelf. It represents a gathering together of cognitive viewpoints in understanding leadership, and it makes a strong statement about the relevance of those viewpoints.' - Academy of Management Review

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