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Monographs in Leadership and Management Volume 9

Leadership Now: Reflections on the Legacy of Boas Shamir

Edited By

Israel Katz

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Galit Eilam-Shamir

Ono Academic College, Israel

Ronit Kark

Bar Ilan University, Israel

Yair Berson

Bar Ilan University, Israel

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About the Editors

Israel Katz is an Associate Professor at the Departments of Psychology and Sociology (where he is also the Director of Organizational Studies) in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is also a Founder and the Head of Zofnat – the Institute of Research, Development and Organizational Consulting. He serves as the Chief Editor of Organizational Analysis (a professional publication in Hebrew) and has published several books and numerous articles, mostly in Hebrew, on the topic of organizational leadership.

Galit Eilam-Shamir holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Hebrew University and a Master’s degree in Organizational Behavior from Tel Aviv University. She is a Senior Lecturer and heads the MBA program in Organizational Management Studies at the Faculty of Business Administration at Ono Academic College. Her career straddles academic interests and practical work. In her studies and publications, she focuses on the subject of managing and leading change and on leadership, more particularly authentic leadership. Part of her research work in this field was conducted in tandem with her late spouse, Prof. Boas Shamir. Their joint investigations in this area have shed light on the concept of authentic leadership, while also challenging the concept itself. They suggested that authentic leaders act according to their self-perception as shaped by their life story and evolving within it. Their work also addressed a number of practical implications of developing authentic leadership. Dr Eilam-Shamir boasts extensive experience in organizational consulting and personal consulting to managers in business and public organizations. Her consulting activity centers on providing comprehensive professional guidance to organizations undergoing change processes. Another aspect of her consulting activity involves work with senior executives on developing personal leadership, based on their personal and professional life stories.

Ronit Kark is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University (BIU). She was the Founder and the Director of the Graduate Gender Program “Gender in the Field: Linking Feminist Theory and Practice,” at BIU. She is also an affiliated Scholar at the Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons College, Boston, MA. She received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include leadership and followership, positive relationships in organizations, identity and identification processes, gender and leadership, and leading for creativity. Her work was published in leading journals including: AMR, AMA, LQ, JOOP, JOB, Organization, AMLE, and JAP. Prof. Kark is an Associate Editor at the LQ and also served on the Editorial Boards of the AMJ, AMR, AMD, Frontiers in Psychology, and IJMR. She was awarded the Best Paper Prizes by the International Leadership Association (ILA, 2005), the International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB, 2012), and the Academy of Management Annals (AMA, 2016, #2). She also received the AOM 2012 Award for her “Scholarly Contributions to Advancing Women in Leadership” and the 2016 prize for an “Outstanding Researcher” at BIU. She consults to organizations (private, public sector, and non-governmental organizations, NGOs) on leadership development and on enhancing socially responsible leadership and serves voluntarily on the advisory committees and boards of NGOs that aim to enhance social change and equity.

Yair Berson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology of Bar-Ilan University, and a Visiting Research Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business (2017–2021). He received his Ph.D. in Management from the Center for Leadership Studies/School of Management at SUNY Binghamton. He previously served as an Assistant Professor of Management at Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering) and as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa. In addition, he was a Visiting Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Dr Berson’s research focuses on the role of leaders’ characteristics, in particular, personal values and visionary leadership, in shaping organizations and individuals through strategic processes, such as organizational learning and change. Most recently, he expanded his work to examine the role of leaders in facilitating neuro- and physiological-synchrony among followers. Dr Berson’s work has been published in venues such as Psychological Science, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, Personnel Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and The Leadership Quarterly. He is a co-author of The Dream Weavers: Strategy Focused Leadership in Technology-Driven Organizations (IAP, 2004). Dr Berson’s work has also been featured several times in the business literature in such venues as Forbes, Financial Times, Psychology Today, and Israel’s business magazines Globes and The Marker. He has been serving on the board of The Leadership Quarterly since 2004.

About the Authors

Bruce J. Avolio, Ph.D. is the Mark Pigott Chair in Business Strategic Leadership Executive Director, Center for Leadership & Strategic Thinking in Michael G. Foster School of Business, the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Bruce has published 12 books and over 150 articles on leadership and related areas. In 2017, Bruce was recognized as being among the top 70 most highly cited researchers in the United States in economics and business, and among the top 3,000 across all sciences around the globe (Thompson Reuters).

Corine Boon is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management (HRM) at the University of Amsterdam Business School, the Netherlands. Her research focuses primarily on strategic HRM and person-environment fit. Her research has been published in journals including Journal of Management, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management. Corine is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Review, and Human Resource Management Journal.

Melissa Carsten, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Management at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. Dr Carsten conducts research on followership role orientations, and how followers contribute to the leadership process in organizations. Her research has been published The Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology among others. Dr Carsten serves on the Editorial Boards of The Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Group and Organization Management.

Deanne N. Den Hartog is a Professor of Organizational Behavior, the Head of the Leadership and Management Section and the Director of the Research Institute at the University of Amsterdam Business School, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on leadership, including charismatic, cross-cultural, and ethical leadership as well as proactive work behavior, HRM, and trust. Her research has been published in journals including the Journal of Management, the Journal of Applied Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly, and many others and Deanne serves on several editorial boards.

Dov Eden is the Saltiel Emeritus Professor of Corporate Leadership at Tel Aviv University’s Coller School of Management where he has chaired the Organizational Behavior Program, directed the Israel Institute of Business Research, and directed executive training. He is the recipient of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s (SIOP) 2018 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. He is a fellow of SIOP, the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. He served as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal and on editorial boards of other leading journals. His research focuses on leadership, motivation, work stress, and field-experimental methodology.

Benjamin M. Galvin is an Associate Professor in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He earned a Ph.D. in Management from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, AZ. His research interests include leader identity, CEO narcissism, motivation to lead, and inclusive leadership. His research has been published in key journals including the Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, and The Leadership Quarterly.

Jane M. Howell holds the Taylor/Mingay Chair in Management and is a professor of organizational behavior at the Ivey Business School, The University of Western Ontario, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from The University of British Columbia. Her current research interests include champions of innovation and crisis leadership.

Micha Popper was the Head of the Organizational Psychology Program at the University of Haifa Israel and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Western Ontario and Simon Fraser University. Prior to his academic career, he was the Head of the Israel Defense Forces School for Leadership Development and was one of the founders and director of the Center for Quality Leadership in Israel. His research concerns leadership and followership as evolutionary-cultural phenomena, leadership development, dynamics of leader–follower’s relationship, and learning processes in organizations.

Smadar Porat is the head of R&D and a partner at the Institute for Quality Leadership. She received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received her B.A. and M.A. in the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research interests include complexity leadership, leadership from a network perspective (social network analysis), relational leadership, emergent leadership, and leadership in the plural. She also consults to local and global organizations on leadership development, focusing on “leading managements,” leadership in times of disruption, and leadership for innovation.

Boas Shamir was a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He obtained his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. His research interests included the role of leaders’ life stories in the leadership process, and relationships between threats and leadership.

Mary Uhl-Bien is the BNSF Railway Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University. She has also been a Visiting Scholar in Australia, Sweden, Portugal, and Spain. Her research focuses on complexity leadership, relational leadership, and followership. She has published four edited books and a textbook, and her work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management, and The Leadership Quarterly. She is a Founder of the Network of Leadership Scholars in the Academy of Management and is active in executive education nationally and internationally.

David A. Waldman is a Professor of Management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, AZ. His interests focus on leadership processes, including interdisciplinary efforts involving neuroscience, technology transfer, and social responsibility. His accomplishments include over 120 articles in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and the Journal of Management. He currently is on six editorial review boards, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.