Journal of Leadership Studies最新文献

During a time of cascading crises within organizations and societies, those engaged in leadership are called upon to respond to the pressures of the moment and to advance change that will contribute to individual and collective vitality. The work of leadership generativity becomes particularly pronounced in the social, emotional, and pragmatic pivot from crisis to post-crisis. In response to these many internal and external pressures and opportunities, this article addresses key questions and considerations for global leadership in the aftermath of crisis. Specifically, as presented in a forthcoming book on the subject, the article introduces five leadership practices that are recognized as especially critical for post-crisis leadership: (a) encourage learning, (b) cultivate resilience, (c) stimulate meaning-making, (d) pursue reinvention, and (e) advance renewal.

Despite being seen as a midlife construct, generativity (i.e., care and concern for the next generation) has significant utilization among emerging adults. However, the measures developed and recommended by seminal scholars to research generativity have had challenges when applied to the emerging adult population. Therefore, the current article outlines the history of generativity measurement, generativity measurement among emerging adults, recommendations for utilizing generativity measures in practice, and future research directions for generativity measurement among emerging adults.

The current article aims to reimagine what leadership and generativity can look like for generations to come. The article begins by defining and contextualizing generativity and leadership. Leadership capacity and efficacy are explored as important entities of generativity development followed by a critical conversation of how to proceed forward. The article concludes with a call to action, focused on honoring context and moving towards interconnectedness.

Historically, scholars examining charisma within the context of leadership have provided an ambiguous definition of charisma pertaining to a leader's ability to influence followers around collective goals. Charisma can become quite convoluted and ambiguous within the context of leadership. One reason for the ambiguity is no unified conceptualization of charisma exists. Herein is an examination of charisma considering its historical footings and its underpinnings related to people's propensity to be emotionally influenced and aroused to gain a deeper understanding of charismatic leadership. Overall, the purpose of the article was to systematically review, organize, and present a body of literature exploring charismatic leadership. The following research questions guided the systematic literature review: What is charisma within the context of leadership, and how is it measured?

The current article presents examples of video games that specifically seek to enable their players to rethink their ideological assumptions and to develop empathy, critical components of both understanding and practicing leadership. Through these examples, the article suggests that video games are uniquely effective in this capacity because of their emphasis on interactivity and imaginative identification, as well as the wide distribution of games as a medium. Taken together, games' effectiveness at persuasion, ability to develop empathy, and popularity make them particularly well-suited to prepare players for engagement with leadership as both leaders and (critical) followers.

The use of games to model and understand complex systems has an extensive history in military circles. Gaming is used by commanders at all levels to inform their understanding of the operational environment, evaluate disparate courses of action, and refine future concepts of operation. The current article examines the use of gaming by the U.S. Air Force to mature and promote its Agile Combat Employment operational concept. The case is made that this approach is extensible to allow leaders with varying problem sets a tool to develop a deeper understanding of their leadership options.

The current article introduces the symposium Games for Leadership: an examination for leadership scholars and practitioners to further explore the use of games in the leadership process. Games can be leveraged to influence and solve a wide range of problems. Further, games include an embedded feedback loop that can drive leadership engagement. Examples are provided to illustrate these concepts alongside an introduction to each symposium article.

The current paper examines how citizen science games, or games that build knowledge and enable the crowdsourcing of tasks, enable leadership. Specifically, the paper describes how both the creators and players of these knowledge-building games are collectively engaged in the leadership process. Players are enacting leadership through collaboration, communication, and problem solving with other players, as well as alongside the creators of these games. The games' developers are also engaged in leadership in how they are framing and enabling problem solving and other collective activities.

The current paper explores a transformative approach to leadership that integrates with a view of analog role-playing games (RPGs) as a system for human interaction, aiming to leverage these experiences and foster collective creative leadership. In the face of urgent global challenges, traditional leadership models prove inadequate, necessitating a shift in understanding leadership as a process of adaptive change among human groups. Drawing on phenomenology, relational sociology and constructivist perspectives, I advocate for a conceptualization of leadership as a socially constructed, meaning-making endeavor mutually embedded within and generating cultural context. I emphasize the essential role of collective cultural approaches and propose a co-creative education process that incorporates play and creativity for effective leadership development. Then, I delve further into the intersection of leadership and play, highlighting the potential of RPGs in facilitating transformative, collective creativity. The proposed model views RPGs as Leadership-As-Practice Development (LAPD) and explores how analog RPGs can be employed as dynamic platforms for leadership learning, identity development, team-building, and symbolic storytelling processes.