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Organizational Behavior, 17e
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Organizational Behavior, 17e

by Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
130h 6m
English
Pearson
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Challenges to Our Understanding of Leadership

  1. 7 Identify the challenges to our understanding of leadership.

“In the 1500s, people ascribed all events they didn’t understand to God. Why did the crops fail? God. Why did someone die? God. Now our all-purpose explanation is leadership.”116 This may be an astute observation from management consulting, but of course much of an organization’s success or failure is due to factors outside the influence of leadership. Sometimes it’s a matter of being in the right or wrong place at a given time. In this section, we present challenges to the accepted beliefs about the value of leadership.

Leadership as an Attribution

As you may remember from Chapter 6, attribution theory examines how people try to make sense ...

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ISBN: 9780134103983