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This text explains why values-based spiritual leadership that coalesces employees into a harmonious group is the only way to successfully manage increasingly diverse workers in the 21st century.A person's values are the most powerful factor defining his or her actions; everyone has a value system or a spiritual component that triggers their behavior. Our personal values are a more powerful force upon individual action than corporate policy, procedures, tradition or peer pressure. Since the work environment is where the typical worker will spend the most time-more than at home with family, with friends, or at church-it is reasonable that workers will have spiritual demands as well as economic needs from their work lives. Unfortunately, this is a task managers are not prepared to meet.
Real Leadership: How Spiritual Values Give Leadership Meaning argues that values-based-i.e., spiritual-leadership is the only way to do leadership in today's globalized, multi-differentiated world. The author traces the development of real leadership through five generations of theory, then builds a strong case for the values leadership strategy because of its ability to unify workers. and because it allows them to find personal meaning in the workplace task at hand.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Values Trigger Our Behavior
Thesis One: A Changing World Requires New Leadership
1 Globalization: Its Impact and Implications for Real Leadership
Thesis Two: Leadership Is Not Management Nor Is Management Leadership
2 Understanding Leadership
3 Understanding Modern Management Practice
4 Comparing Real Leadership and Modern Management Practice
Thesis Three: Real Leadership Is a Values-setting Paradigm
5 Past Generations of Theory Inappropriately Combine Leadership with Management
6 The Fourth Generation of Leadership Is Values Leadership
7 The Values Leadership Perspectives Model
Thesis Four: Spiritual Leadership Is the Wave of Future Leadership
8 Spiritual Leadership Is the Fifth Generation of Values Leadership
9 Spiritual Leadership in Action
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Gilbert W. Fairholm is emeritus professor of leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
