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Reviewing the growing body of research on executive leadership from multiple domains, Zaccaro (psychology, George Mason U., VA) offers an integrated basis for understanding leadership at the highest levels and thinking about its role in organizational effectiveness. He provides recommendations for methods and focuses of future research into the dynamics, processes, and products of executive leadership and its development.
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Title: The nature of executive leadership: A conceptual and empirical analysis of success.Find More Like This Author(s): Zaccaro, Stephen J., George Mason U, Fairfax, VA, US Source: Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. xiii, 363 pp. ISBN: 1-55798-732-7 (hardcover) Digital Object Identifier: 10.1037/10398-000 Language: English Keywords: conceptual & empirical analysis; executive leadership Abstract: What makes for success at the highest levels of executive leadership? Until recently, most research has been conducted with middle-level managers, whose success is based on distinctively different attributes than success for those at the highest levels of an organization. To work with senior executives, it is critical to understand these distinctions. In this volume, the most recent research on the skills, knowledge, abilities, and other characteristics that define effectiveness of senior executive is examined and integrated in a comprehensive and systematic way for the first time. Industrial psychologists, organizational consultants, and others who work with executive leaders can use this integrated framework to develop innovative ways of assessing, selecting, training, developing, and coaching executives based on solid empirical data. Graduate students and other researchers will find exciting research paradigms in which the most pressing research questions are defined and recommendations are made for avoiding some of the methodological problems that have plagued research on executive leadership in the past. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved) (from the jacket) Subjects: *Leadership; *Top Level Managers Classification: Management & Management Training (3640) Intended Audience: Psychology: Professional & Research (PS) Publication Type: Book, Authored Book; Print Release Date: 20040831 Accession Number: 2001-00142-000 Number of Citations in Source: 555 Cover Image: Table of Contents of: The nature of executive leadership: A conceptual and empirical analysis of success. (Abbreviated) List of tables, exhibits, and figures Acknowledgments Executive leadership: An introduction Stephen J. Zaccaro / 3-19 Conceptual complexity theories of executive leadership: Conceptual review and evaluation Stephen J. Zaccaro / 21-59 Conceptual complexity theories of executive leadership: Empirical review and evaluation Stephen J. Zaccaro / 61-121 Behavioral complexity theories: Conceptual review and evaluation Stephen J. Zaccaro / 123-147 Behavioral complexity theories of executive leadership: Empirical review and evaluation Stephen J. Zaccaro / 149-171 Strategic decision-making models of executive leadership: Conceptual review and evaluation Stephen J. Zaccaro / 173-205 Strategic decision-making models of executive leadership: Empirical review and evaluation Stephen J. Zaccaro / 207-231 Visionary and inspirational models of executive leadership: Conceptual review and evaluation Stephen J. Zaccaro / 233-257 Visionary and inspirational models of executive leadership: Empirical review and evaluation Stephen J. Zaccaro / 259-278 Executive leadership: An integrated model Stephen J. Zaccaro / 279-315 References Author index Subject index About the author Source: Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2001. Item Number: 2001-00142-000 Executive Leadership: An Introduction T he quality of an organization’s top leaders is a crit