Organizational Leadership features a new theory for organizational leadership called LAMPE. The acronym signifies that it is a theory in which the links among Leadership, Authority, Management, Power, and Environments should be coherent and operational. Volume III fills voids in the extensive literature on leadership. Organizational leadership is more than individual leadership. LAMPE posits that there are four major processes involved. These are initiating, enabling, implementing, and sustaining organizational change. LAMPE focus on how organizational leadership practices work. It is a...

The many group and organizational sciences share an underlying concept called a process. Processes are widely used but poorly understood. Processes describe how behavior occurs over time. The resulting process representation can be used as an explanation which then can be tested. Process representations range from mathematical models to metaphors. This book is the story of my quest to discover their essence and then to formulate a common means of representing group and organizational processes. The result is interesting, challenging, elegant, and beautiful. This book explains why the quest is...

Significant and enduring research questions share this common analytical structure: If the subject matter is denoted by x, then what is the x of x? What are the processes upon which x is defined? This is the second of three integrated and coherent volumes providing powerful new answers. These research questions are addressed in Volume I: group and organizational processes, science, tests, and tasks. Volume II investigates these questions: organizational problem-solving, congruency, interdependence, interdependence uncertainty, management, organizational holograms, power, risk, and structural...

This book is the cumulation of a four-volume series dedicated to "re-potting" the organizational sciences which suffer from fundamental problems: no working, common representation of its basic phenomena: group and organizational processes (GOPs); context-free theories; dependence on teleological reasoning which hides how these processes work; failure to integrate theory, tools, and engineering methods to convert theory and tools into solving problems with applications; the proliferation of unfalsifiable theories; and reliance on inappropriate statistical procedures. The result is the...