Leadership

Finalist for the Academy of Management Best Book Award, 1992 "The Hunt book charts new waters in the study of leadership. . . . Achieves its purpose quite well. . . . Provides a highly impressive review of new developments in the study of leadership along with conceptual mechanisms for the integration of objectivist and subjectivist methodologies for the understanding of leadership in the context of large systems. . . . For the student of leadership, this book provides a stimulus for considering a subjectivist perspective for study as well as the traditional objectivist approach. . . . Another major innovation in Hunt's work is the contrasting of transactional leadership with transformational leadership. . . . It has much more to offer for those who deal with complex bureaucracies than more simple organizations. Yet, we must remember that this book is directed to the scholar of leadership. As a source of ideas for expanding our conceptions of leadership and for further research, I have seldom encountered its equal." --Administration in Social Work "Chapter 1 of the book delineates clearly the purpose, focus, and scope of the book as well as its structure and organization, thus providing an excellent preview of things to come. In developing the synthesis and formulating the comprehensive multiple-level leadership model, the book goes far beyond the traditional leadership literature and incorporates ideas and concepts from literature in a wide range of fields. . . . The book accomplishes . . . what it sets out to do extraordinarily well. The author has done a masterful job of bringing together a diverse and wide-ranging literature and has succeeded in placing leadership within a managerial and organizational context that encompasses the total system as well as important sub-systems. . . . The book represents a monumental piece of work that significantly extends the frontiers and boundaries of leadership. . . . The book is definitely 'must reading' for researchers and scholars who share an intellectual and serious interest in the subject of leadership. The expanded theoretical framework that the book provides is sure to have a significant impact on leadership research in the 1990s and beyond. As, and when, evidence begins to come in regarding the linkages among the various constituent parts of the models, it is likely to radically alter our ways of thinking, researching, and teaching about the elusive and complex phenomenon of leadership." --Contemporary Psychology "This is the book that I wish had been available when I took my graduate seminar in leadership and executive development. . . . Hunt has now provided a comprehensive framework for examining leadership. His synthesis brings together these perspectives among others in the presentation of a multiorganizational level leadership model. . . . Hunt uses several devices for orienting the reader. First, Hunt provides very effective introductions to each chapter. At the end of each chapter, th...