Real Leadership: How Spiritual Values Give Leadership Meaning

By Gilbert W. Fairholm

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313393311
• ISBN13: 9780313393310
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years