1st Edition

Leadership and Cultural Change Managing Future Well-Being

Edited By Ramona Houmanfar, Mark Mattaini Copyright 2018
340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

Contemporary confluences of leadership decision-making and citizenship behavior often unintentionally contribute to the depletion of the world’s resources – escalating health, education, and social crises, as well as community, societal, and cultural struggles – to adapt to emerging global shifts. Leadership and management practices in this context affect the wellbeing of organizational members... Read more

Introduction: Leadership and Cultural Change  1. Functions of Organizational Leaders in Cultural Change: Financial and Social Well-Being  2. Leadership and Culture  3. Collective Leadership and Circles: Not Invented Here  4. Integrating Organizational-Cultural Values With Performance Management  5. Selection of Business Practices in the Midst of Evolving Complexity  6. Consumer Behavior Analysis and the Marketing Firm: Bilateral Contingency in the Context of Environmental Concern  7. Job Satisfaction: The Management Tool and Leadership Responsibility  8. Seven Life Lessons From Humanistic Behaviorism: How to Bring the Best Out of Yourself and Others  9. An Industry’s Call to Understand the Contingencies Involved in Process Safety: Normalization of Deviance  10. Leadership and Crew Resource Management in High-Reliability Organizations: A Competency Framework for Measuring Behaviors  11. Behavioral Education in the 21st Century  12. Cultural Change in a Medical School: A Data-Driven Management of Entropy  13. Enhancing the Behavioral Science Knowledge and Skills of 21st-Century Leaders in Academic Medicine and Science  14. Behavior Analytic Concepts and Change in a Large Metropolitan Research University: The Graduation Success Initiative  15. A Behavioral Approach to Organizational Change: Reinforcing Those Responsible for Facilitating the Climate and Hence Promoting Diversity

Biography

Ramona A. Houmanfar is an Associate Professor and Director of the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Nevada, USA. She is the author or co-editor of two books and over sixty other publications; and the editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. Her recent scholarly interests have focused on behavioral systems analysis, rule governance, leadership communication in organizations, and cultural behavior analysis.



Mark Mattaini is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and the President of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. He is the author or co-editor of eleven books and over ninety other publications. He is editor of the interdisciplinary journal Behavior and Social Issues. His recent scholarship has focused on nonviolent social action supporting peace and justice.