Full Description
Through the theorization of leadership from various communicative perspectives, this book offers a comprehensive, multi-perspectival framework and actionable insights for building responsible, relational, and inclusive leadership practices.
This book presents three distinct perspectives on how sub-disciplines in communication studies understand, utilize, and theorize the intersections between communication and leadership: (1) diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA), intercultural, and critical cultural approaches; (2) relational, discursive, and collective approaches; and (3) pedagogical and training approaches. Contributors showcase how communication theory assists in building more responsible, relational, dialogical, ethical, and meaningful leadership practices, using applied cases, scenarios, and leader profiles to demonstrate theoretical approaches in practical contexts. Each chapter features suggested further readings and questions to spark continued engagement with the issues presented.
This text is suited to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in leadership communication, organizational communication, and leadership studies within communication studies, business, psychology, higher education and administration, and military leadership programs.
Contents
Foreword Introduction SECTION ONE: DEIA, Intercultural, and Critical Approaches to Leadership and Communication 1. Feminist Communication Theory of Resilience as Design for Leadership in a Culturally Complex World 2. Intersectional Leadership, Leadership-as-Medium, and Institutional Change 3. Authentic Leadership: A Step Backward from a Communication Perspective 4. Embracing Difference in Leadership and Organizational Life: A Critical Intercultural Communication Perspective 5. Leadership and Building Inclusive Organizational Cultures through Microaffirmations 6. A Critical Dialectical Perspective for Intercultural Leadership Communication SECTION TWO: Relational, Discursive, and Collective Approaches to Leadership and Communication 7. Integrating Communication and Leadership Theories for Enhanced Leadership in Federal Agencies 8. Accidentally Visible and Unmuted: Communication Privacy Management and Adaptive Leadership in Evolving Workplaces 9. Relational Styles and Social Cognition in Leadership Communication: Balancing Warmth and Competence 10. Leadership Mythodology, Narrative, and Communication Ethics: Engaging the Other 11. Leader-Member Exchange Theory, Theory of Independent-Mindedness, and Superior-Subordinate Relationships 12. Serving up Sustainability: Institutionalized Leadership Communication in the Restaurant Industry 13. The Dialogic Spectrum of Leadership-as-Practice Development 14. Leveraging Digital Affordances for Collective Leadership: Insights from Mutual Aid Organizing SECTION THREE: Pedagogical and Training Approaches to Leadership and Communication 15. Humanistic Leadership: Transforming Business through Communication Education 16. Social Construction of Leadership and Change: Cases from Higher Education 17. Moral Map of DEI Leadership Pitfalls: Developing Inclusive Servant Leadership 18. The Integration of Relational Resilience into a Leadership Communication Course for Military Students 19. Communicating Mission Command: A Four-Part Framework for Leaders 20. Authenticity in Leadership Communication: Storytelling and Mission-Driven Messaging as Pedagogical Tools 21. #SwarmHunger: Mobilizing Feminist Communication Pedagogies and Adaptive Leadership to Combat Food Insecurity 22. Advancing Systems Change through Doctoral Education: Leveraging Publicly Engaged Leadership Scholarship 23. Freire's Revolutionary Leadership and Critical Communication Pedagogy
