Dr. Cam Caldwell and Dr. Verl Anderson have written extensively about successful organizations and the obligation of leaders and human resource professionals in todays challenging world. This new book focuses on the need for a new transformative approach to human resource management to redefine individuals lives and organizational cultures. Dr. Cam Caldwell and Dr. Verl Anderson combine outstanding scholarly experience with more than twenty-five years of practitioner insights into explaining how and why human resource professionals must recalibrate their sites in contributing to their...

This new book identifies insights about the ethical issues associated with trust and trustworthiness, and their relationship to the leaders obligations as an ethical steward. The purpose of this book is to identify the importance of trust and trustworthiness in the Transformative Era, a time when constant change and the increasing demands of customers make it paramount for organizations to obtain the commitment, followership, and extra-role behaviors required to compete in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous global marketplace. Unfortunately, leaders today have failed to earn the...

In today's knowledge-, wisdom-, and information-based world, the challenge facing leaders and organizations is to be able to obtain employee commitment and to apply that dedication to constant improvement and change. In a world where technology is rapidly improving and knowledge is increasing exponentially in virtually every field, the ability to adapt and to innovate is essential to organization success and individual development. This book looks at continuous improvement at the individual, group, organizational, and societal levels and identifies commonalities and keys to success. It adopts...

In today's knowledge-, wisdom-, and information-based world, the challenge facing leaders and organizations is to be able to obtain employee commitment and to apply that dedication to constant improvement and change. In a world where technology is rapidly improving and knowledge is increasing exponentially in virtually every field, the ability to adapt and to innovate is essential to organization success and individual development. This book looks at continuous improvement at the individual, group, organizational, and societal levels and identifies commonalities and keys to success. It adopts...

Whether as a leader seeking to empower others or as an individual struggling to become a better person ourselves, the decision to empower is a choice we make. The nature of our action is to acknowledge the incredible ability that exists within another person or to realize that we also possess an undiscovered and unrealized greatness. The untapped capacity within each individual is rarely imagined and it is extremely unusual for a person to realize even a small part of his or her almost unlimited capabilities. The focus of this book is on coming to terms with the best version of ourselves and...

The desire for the power to control the conditions in oneas life is a basic need possessed by virtually everyone. Power is sometimes associated with the desire for personal safety. It is also referred to as closely associated with free will, the ability to choose, and the degree to which a person can influence others. In individualistic societies, personal power is a primary value of the culture and is considered more important than the priorities of the group. This book is about apower witha rather than apower overa others a but also addresses power within oneself. We have written with the...

The idea that motivation is largely an internally generated desire is sometimes new to individuals. Traditional thinking held by a large portion of the population is that leaders motivate others within organizations, and motivation is impacted predominantly by external incentives that are created to encourage others to conform and comply with desired performance standards. Although many leaders, managers, and supervisors may believe that it is part of their job description to motivate their followers, the opinion of many experts is that motivation is largely an internally-generated choice...

We live in a time when trust in leaders at all levels of society has declined, when students at colleges and universities openly acknowledge that they cheat, and when the reputations of even the most admired leaders have been sullied by misconduct. It is a time when the future of tomorrow's generation appears to be growing dimmer and those who have passed on burdens that will have to be borne have clearly neglected their moral responsibilities. Fixing the blame is far less important than fixing the problem. The root cause of today's concerns and tomorrow's future lies in the failure of those...