Seducing Leadership: Stories of Leadership Development

This article argues that leadership development is a process of seduction. Drawing on some stories of leadership development from my experience as participant, observer and teacher I show the ways in which certain sorts of highly valued leadership teaching contain seductive elements, including sweeping audiences off their feet and, in some contexts, forestalling critique about the content that is offered. The article also considers the extent to which seduction is a gendered performance. I conclude that, while gender and power are defining elements and constraints in how seductive pedagogical relations are constructed, there are opportunities for experimentation and display that potentially subvert gendered stereotypes. Seeing the seduction in leadership can help us understand leadership and leadership teaching better, and can open the way to doing it differently — to experimentation and innovation.     

What's Playing in the Organizational Theater? Collusive Relationships in Management

This article takes as its point of departureconcepts derived from couple therapy to betterunderstand collusive relationships in organizations. Aswe examine these dysfunctional workplace relationships— these interpersonal gridlocks —four main types of collusive superior subordinateinteraction patterns are identified — thenarcissistic, the controlling, the paranoid, and thesadomasochistic — and the consequences of each such dyad in organizationsare explored. In conclusion, the paper presents a numberof recommendations on how to recognize the presence ofsuch collusive arrangements (taking leadership behavior as a point of departure) and suggestspreventive steps that can be taken.     

Character-Based Determinants of Trust in Leaders

Trust is a prominent determinant of effective interpersonal relationships, group process, and organizational development. However, for leaders and managers, trust building is often problematic. The aim of this article is to contribute to a growing understanding of the way in which individual managers can develop trust in organizations, particularly those defined by medium to high risk. The article presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nature of trust at work. Building on the results of an earlier study, use is made of the facet-theoretical approach to generate a definitional framework of trust, which focuses on the characteristics of the trusted person that contribute to the development of trust. Using items developed on the basis of a mapping sentence, hypotheses regarding the relations between the definitional framework and empirical observations were tested through smallest space analysis (SSA) of data collected from a sample of 398 bank and hospital employees. The results demonstrate strong support for the definitional system and show a clear association with results of prior research that identify perceptions of ability, integrity, fairness, and openness as key determinants of trust. The empirical structure clearly reflects the attitudinal nature of interpersonal trust at work and the items empirically distinguish distinct character-based components of trust.     

社会转型期领导者能力新框架的构建

在社会转型期,各种竞争日益激烈.领导者们既要正视竞争,更应珍惜竞争的机会.只要对自己的管理才能进行大胆挖掘,全方位修构,便能抓住竞争的机遇,找到自我与组织生存和发展的空间.     

传统与创新:乐业县把吉村高山汉古法造纸与旅游开发研究

广西乐业大石围天坑附近,把吉村高山汉现存的造纸术,是中国古代四大发明之一的造纸术的延续和发展.把吉村的古法造纸包括砍竹、浸泡、淘洗、舂料、打槽和加"滑水"、抄纸、压纸、晾干、揭纸等工序,与明代宋应星《天工开物》记载的造纸工艺流程十分相似.把吉出的纸又称为"火纸",主要用于祭祀鬼神.把吉古法造纸具有重要的历史价值和旅游开发价值,应做好其保护、旅游开发的规划和宣传工作.     

试论社会技能的价值与结构

社会技能是国外心理学家十分关注、我国心理学工作者也开始研究的一个重要的心理学问题。社会技能对个体的社会支持、心身健康、工作效率等有着重要影响。社会技能的基本要素包括自信心、心理认知、回馈与强化、非言语交流技能、言语交流技能、同理心、合作、关心他人等。     

创新人才培养的几个视点

社会发展呼唤创新型人才,各国教育界的有识之士都认识到改革传统教育势在必行,并进行了一系列有益的探索。我国的教育改革起步较晚,尤其是在创新人才培养和教育管理制度改革方面还有待完善,教育创新成为一项十分紧迫而艰巨的任务。这不仅是社会发展的需要,同时也是教育本身发展的需要。     

Private Action for Public Good?: The Public Role of Voluntary Sector Organizations

Voluntary sector organizations claim to be private institutions acting for the public good. However, if the concept of public is disengaged from the state and connected instead to citizenship, VSOs can be shown to have both private and public origins, as well as private and public impacts. As citizens, VSOs are public organizations serving the public good through their purported representation of the people and civic leadership. The legitimacy of their assumption of these public roles remains a continuing challenge.     

浅论“三个代表”对邓小平党的领导理论的丰富和发展

“三个代表”重要思想是根据党领导我国现代化建设的新特点、新要求提出的。它在党的领导的本质、主题、实现条件、检验标准以及对党的领导活动规律的揭示等方面 ,丰富和发展了邓小平党的领导理论     

议论的技巧--论证说

时下有关论证的说法很多 ,有过程论 ,层次论 ,方法论 ,结构论等 ,本文认为论证是技巧 ,是“统合技巧”。它统合了诸如句法、词法、语法、修辞法、逻辑法、章法等方法 ,构成篇章修辞方法 ,完成一篇议论文的表达。