What’s Wrong With Leadership?

Ronald Riggio, Ph.D. is Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology at Claremont McKenna College.

1. Introduction: What’s Wrong with Leadership? Improving Leadership Theory, Research, and Practice Ronald E. Riggio Part I: Improving Leadership Methodology, Assessment, and Selection 2. Leadership Research Methods: Progressing Back to Process Maureen E. McCusker, Roseanne J. Foti, and Elsheba K. Abraham 3. Leadership and Levels of Analysis: Clarifications and Fixes for What’s Wrong Francis J. Yammarino and Shelley D. Dionne 4. Leadership Assessment Can Be Better: Directions for Selection and Performance Management Manuel London 5. The Self-Selection Bias in Leadership: Understanding Reluctant Leaders Olga Epitropaki Part II: Increasing the Scope of Leadership Research 6. Leadership and Ethics: You Can Run but You Cannot Hide from the Humanities Joanne B. Ciulla 7. Leadership is Male-Centric: Gender Issues in the Study of Leadership Stefanie K. Johnson and Christina N. Lacerenza 8. Are Leadership Theories Western-Centric? Transcending Cognitive Differences Between the East and the West Kenta Hino 9. Leadership and the Medium of Time Robert G. Lord 10. Leaders are Complex: Expanding Our Understanding of Leader Identity Stefanie P. Shaughnessy and Meredith R. Coats 11. Turning the Blind Eye to Destructive Leadership: The Forgotten Destructive Leaders Birgit Schyns, Pedro Neves, Barbara Wisse, and Michael Knoll Part III: Improving Leadership Practice and Expanding Our Thinking About Leadership 12. Leadership Development Starts Earlier than We Think: Capturing the Capacity of New Leaders to Address the Leader Talent Shortage Susan Elaine Murphy 13. What is Wrong with Leadership Development and What Might Be Done with It? David V. Day and Zhengguang Liu 14. Solving the Problem with Leadership Training: Aligning Contemporary Behavior-Based Training with Mindset Conditioning Alex Leung and Thomas Sy 15. Critical Leadership Studies: Exploring the Dialectics of Leadership David L. Collinson 16. Leadership for What? Eric Guthey, Steve Kempster, and Robyn Remke