S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher, and Michael J. Platow
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Psychology Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxvi, 267 pages :
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illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and indexes
CONTENTS NOTE
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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. Identity Leadership at Large: Prejudice, Practice, and Politics
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This work gives an overview of the new understanding of leadership that has emerged in social and organisational psychology as part of the development of self-categorisation and social identity theories. The authors advance the argument that leadership is a group process grounded in the creation and control of group identity