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Professionalizing Leadership

Debating Education, Certification and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Anders Örtenblad

    1. Nord University, Bodø, Norway

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  • Offers engaging debate surrounding leadership as a profession
  • Includes contributions from a diverse number of experts
  • Comprehensively illustrates the arguments for and against presenting leadership as a profession

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  3. Against Leadership as a Profession

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. How and Why Management Has Not Become a Profession

      • Haldor Byrkjeflot, Pål Nygaard
      Pages 47-68

    3. Management as a Profession: The Historian’s Perspective

      • Susanna Fellman
      Pages 69-86

    4. The Professional Leader: Man of Many Talents or Jack of All Trades? Five Questions About Professional Leadership

      • Leif-Kristian Monsen
      Pages 87-107

    5. Leadership as a Profession: A Special Case Dependent on Organizational Ownership, Governance, Mission and Vision

      • Peter Davis
      Pages 109-124

    6. Can Leadership Become a Profession?

      • Frederik Hertel, Michael Fast
      Pages 125-139

    7. Against Professionalizing Leadership: The Roles of Self-Formation and Practical Wisdom in Leadership

      • Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Marita Svane
      Pages 141-160

    8. The Case for Behavioral Professionalism in Leadership

      • C. Ken Weidner II
      Pages 161-180

    9. Professionalizing Political Leaders: Is This the Cure? Lessons from Political Theory

      • Hans Petter Saxi
      Pages 181-195

  4. In Between For and Against Leadership as a Profession

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. The Future of Management: Global Trends and Possible Scenarios of Development of Managerial Profession

      • Alexandra Moskovskaya
      Pages 199-217

    3. Management/Leadership: Profession, Professional, Professionalization

      • Rikke Kristine Nielsen, Thomas Duus Henriksen, Kenneth Børgesen
      Pages 219-234

  5. For Leadership as a Profession

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Leadership, Management, and the Common Good

      • David Lutz
      Pages 237-250

    3. Management Can Be Considered as a Profession

      • Victor J. Delacruz
      Pages 251-274

    4. The Professionalization of Medical Management? The Slow and Chequered Case of UK Health Care

      • Ewan Ferlie
      Pages 275-292
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About this book

This book presents a lively debate surrounding the professionalization of leadership. With contributions from both sides of the argument, it considers the historical overview of leadership and management as a profession, questions what constitutes a profession, and critically addresses the practicality of professionalizing leadership. With a range of perspectives including political philosophy, behavioral professionalism and management history, the book intends to facilitate further discussion on the issues at stake. With a number of education programs beginning to focus on the art and practice of leading people, this debate is particularly timely.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nord University, Bodø, Norway

    Anders Örtenblad

About the editor

Anders Örtenblad is Professor of Organization and Leadership at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Nord University, Norway.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Professionalizing Leadership

  • Book Subtitle: Debating Education, Certification and Practice

  • Editors: Anders Örtenblad

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71785-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71784-5Published: 07 August 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10109-1Published: 02 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71785-2Published: 26 July 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 425

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership

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