This edited volume provides managers, as well as students, with the best practices in effectively leading the 21st century workforce and managing change. It applies positive principles arising from the newly emerging fields of positive psychology, positive change, and positive organizational studies to the field of leadership and change; offering managers strategies and tools to lead change effectively, in the present-day boundary-less work environment. At its most fundamental level, the uniqueness of this volume lies in its anchorage in the moral and spiritual dimension of leadership, an approach most relevant for contemporary organizations.

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Satinder Dhiman serves as Associate Dean, Chair, and Director of the MBA Program and Professor of Management at Woodbury University's School of Business (USA). He is the founder and Director of Forever Fulfilled, a Los Angeles-based Wellbeing Consultancy, which focuses on workplace wellness and self-leadership. Professor Dhiman teaches courses pertaining to ethical leadership, sustainability, organizational behavior & strategy, and spirituality in the workplace in the MBA program. He published in multiple national and international academic journals and authored, edited and translated over 25 titles. He has completed advanced Executive Leadership programs at Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton.

Joan Marques serves as Dean and Professor of Management at Woodbury University's School of Business (USA). Her teaching focuses on leadership, ethics, and organizational behavior, and her research interests pertain to the same areas with specific focus on workplace spirituality and leadership awareness. She has been widely published in prestigious scholarly international journals and has authored, co-authored, and co-edited more than 20 books on management and leadership topics. Professor Marques is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of three scholarly journals: The Business Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of Global Business Issues, and Interbeing, Journal of Personal and Professional Mastery. She has presented a weekly radio program titled De Andere Kant (The Other Side) on Mart Radio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for the past 15 years, and has been a long-time columnist for De Ware Tijd (The True Times), one of the largest newspapers in Paramaribo, Suriname.

Inhalt
I. Authentical-Transformational Leadership Approaches

1. Where have the Authentic Leaders Gone? Aligning our Thoughts, Words, and Deeds!.-Santinder Dhiman

2. Making of an Ethical Leader: The What, Why, and How- Joan Marques
   II. Servant Leadership, Followership, and Inclusive Leadership

• i. Servant Leadership Spiritual Intelligence: A Christian Perspective- Gary Roberts

• ii. So That All May One: The Ecumenical Language of Servant-Leadership- Dung Tran

• iii. Inclusive Leadership as a Lever for Positive Change- Eric Shockman

• iv. The construction of intercultural leadership in a multicultural settings, an indigenous approach- Francisco Rosado May
  III. Moral-Spiritual Leadership Perspectives

• i. Leading with Wisdom: Making Good Decisions based on Knowledge and Experience- Santinder Dhiman

• ii. Values-Based Leadership: Exploring Key Exemplary Approaches- Elizabeth F. R. Gingerich
  IV. Markers of Positive Change

• i. Appreciative Inquiry: Harnessing what is Right about People and Organizations- Santinder Dhiman

• ii. Awakened Leaders & Conscious Followers: Leading Positive Change, Mindfully! Joan Marques

• iii. Musical Leadership and Societal Transformation: Inspiration andCourage in Action- Nancy J. Adler

• iv. Leading Positive Change in Higher Education- K Sankaran

  V.The Dialectic of Positive Leadership and Change

• i. LeadingChange the Edgewalkers' Way- Judi Neal

• ii. The Making of an Emotionally Intelligent Leader- Svetlana Holt and Adam Wood

• iii. Leading Change through Servant Leadership- Sade Olufemi-Ayoola

• iv. Spiritual Love and its Effect on work, work places in the context of Leadership and the Organizations- Claude-Hélène Mayer

• v. Positive Psychology WAVE 2: Mapping Positive psychology to Org behavior, leadership/change- Claude-Hélène Mayer

• vi. Facilitating Change through InterculturalCommunication in Diverse Organizations- Joanna Crossman

• vii. Revitalizing and encouragingleadership in the lower ranks: A recipe for positive change- Colleen Mills

  VI. Positive Leadership and Change: New Approaches and Future Directions

• i. The Making of a Prosocial Leader: A Values-Based

• Approach- Tim Ewest