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This book is the perfect introduction to new theoretical and scientific insights into leadership being created by social psychology. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it is suitable for students on courses including social psychology, organizational psychology, business and management, sociology, economics, and leadership studies.
List of contents
Foreword Preface 1. The Old Psychology of Leadership: Great Men and the Cult of Personality 2. The Current Psychology of Leadership: Issues of Context and Contingency, Transaction and Transformation 3. Foundations for The New Psychology of Leadership: Social Identity and Self-Categorization 4. Being One of Us: Leaders as In-group Prototypes 5. Doing It for Us: Leaders as In-group Champions 6. Crafting a Sense of Us: Leaders as Entrepreneurs of Identity 7. Making Us Matter: Leaders as Embedders of Identity 8. The pragmatics and politics of identity leadership: Being effective and doing good 9. The tools of identity leadership: Translating theory into practice Notes References Glossary
About the author
S. Alexander Haslam is Professor of Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland. Alex’s research focuses on the study of group and identity processes in social, organizational and contexts. Together with over 250 co-authors around the world, he has written and edited 14 books and published over 250 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. He is a former Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and currently Associate Editor of The Leadership Quarterly.
Stephen Reicher is Professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews. Steve’s seminal contributions to research on social identity and self-categorization theories stretch back to the 1970s, and have been particularly influential in areas of delinquency, nationalism, crowd behaviour, and political influence. Together with over 200 co-authors, he has written and edited 7 books and published over 200 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a former Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology.
Michael Platow is Professor in Psychology at the Australian National University. Michael has published extensively on intergroup relations, social justice, leadership and social influence. He has published over 120 papers in these areas and written and edited three books. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a former president of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists.
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This book is the perfect introduction to new theoretical and scientific insights into leadership being created by social psychology. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it is suitable for students on courses including social psychology, organizational psychology, business and management, sociology, economics, and leadership studies.
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‘As Haslam, Reicher and Platow set it out, a simple but profound theory underlies their New Psychology of Leadership. And that theory seems so very right that it may come as a surprise that this is not already the concept of leadership everywhere. I thought the first edition of this book was timely, the second edition is even more so.' - From the Foreword by George A. Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics
‘What I like about this book, and why I will recommend it to anyone interested in leadership, is how the science of leadership is mingled in a readable way with historical and modern-day examples. It is a must-read.’ - Cary L. Cooper in Times Higher Education
‘This book provides a tremendous service by sorting through the tangle of leadership studies and theories to offer a new perspective that is at once elegant, supported by eclectic research, and readily translatable into practice.’ - Blake Ashforth, Professor of Management, Arizona State University, USA
‘An amazing book that completely changed my mind about leadership.’ - Rafael di Tella, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, USA
‘A path-breaking book that will reinvigorate and redirect scholarship on leadership for many years to come.’ - Jack Dovidio, Department of Psychology, Yale University USA
