Leadership and Politics: New Perspectives in Business, Government and Society

This volume sheds light on the world of organizational politics, political leadership, and the pivotal roles played by employees and political leaders in managing diverse groups. It picks up where influential scholars like Edgar Schein, Harry Triandis, Bernard Bass, Robert House, Shalom Schwartz, and Geert Hofstede left off, providing a timely and transparent exploration of these crucial topics.

In a rapidly evolving landscape, characterized by renewed interest in political skill, people management, leadership and management, diversity training, organizational culture, workplace incivility, ambivalence alliance, and career development, the book emerges as an invaluable resource, assembling a group of renowned contributors in the field, who have conducted extensive social research. It offers a comprehensive view of contemporary organizational politics, psychology at work, DEI, political skill/will, HRM, leadership effectiveness, organizational behavior and culture, relationships in the workplace and emotions in politics, favoritism, workplace incivility, ambivalent alliance, people analytics, and office politics, and competition.

The book discusses the ongoing struggle between knowledge-driven scholarship and dogmatic ideology in the workplace and beyond. As organizations grapple with the challenges of today’s business environment, the book therefore is an indispensable guide for scholars, consultants, and leaders committed to driving continuous improvement and navigating the complex intersection of politics and leadership in the modern workplace.

Prof. Adebowale ＂Ad＂ Akande is an international social theorist and a major figure in global politics and social science. He has an H-index of 143/23 and has been cited numerous times in various articles on SCOPUS. With over 37,533 Google Scholar citations, he is among the top two percent and above the 93.9th percentile of the world’s most influential social scientists. His collaborative works have been reprinted in anthologies and the Financial Times-50 list. He has held faculty appointments at several international universities and received numerous awards, including the UK Commonwealth Academic Fellowship, IUPSYS International Award, Frank Andrew Award, University of Michigan, Sesquicentennial Prize St Xavier University, Chicago, Marquis Who’s Who in the World, Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship, Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship, and Fellow Schloss Leopoldskron in Austria. He is also a co-recipient of the Annual SIOP’s Scott Myers Award, Division 52’s Ursula Gielen Global Book Award, the Gordon W. Allport Prize (2005), and APA Global Award for his research on ambivalent sexism, leadership research projects, and Cross-Cultural Family, which are Scientific Citations Classics. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and currently serves as an international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and as a professor.