This is an introduction to Leadership-as-Practice: Theory and Application. This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the L-A-P movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or...

Professor Joe Raelin, the Donald Gordon Visiting Professor of Leadership at the University of Cape Town, provided the keynote address at SIETAR Japan’s 36th Annual Conference, “Leadership and Collaboration in Intercultural Contexts.” In this review article, Prof. Raelin provides an...

The practice perspective of leadership de-emphasizes purpose and rather recognizes pre-reflective forms of intentionality carried out in embodied practices that may be subsequently guided by democratic, emancipatory, and reflexive processes. Although leadership-as-practice should be classified...

The authors report the results of a three-year longitudinal study of retention among undergraduate engineering students enrolled at four major universities. The study demonstrates that self-efficacy can be a critical factor in student persistence and can be broken down into three components:...

Background: Longstanding data have established that women earn about 20% of undergraduate degrees in engineering. It has also been reported that women students have lower academic self-efficacy in the STEM fields than men. In this study, we seek to probe into these findings through a...

As we move further into the 21st Century, we are becoming more aware that we live in a networked economy and culture, and, as a result, we need to learn how to improve the development of social capital across organizations. Although in nearly all sectors of the economy we have learned that we...

This article and its commentaries shed light on reflective practice, a reflection of past experiences to ponder the meaning of what has recently transpired to one's self and others in the immediate environment. It incorporates a rationale for reflective practice; strategies to encourage...

After demonstrating that manufacturing management applications are ill-conceived in managing academic professionals, this paper proceeds to the real dilemma in academic administration: control vs. autonomy. A solution to the dilemma of balancing administrative control and academic freedom is...

A collective and collaborative response to an article appearing in Leadership’s “Leading Questions” department is prepared by a team subscribing to the Leadership-as-Practice (L-A-P) approach. The focus is to represent the manner in which L-A-P operates as a leadership theory and in its...

In this provocation, the author attempts to cite the advantages of collective leadership while acknowledging the objections and fears of challengers. Collective leadership is seen as remote because it defies the traditional view of leadership as an individualistic attractive quality that not...