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Anthropological accounts of leadership: Historical and geographical interpretations from indigenous cultures (2015)
Journal Article
Edwards, G. (2015). Anthropological accounts of leadership: Historical and geographical interpretations from indigenous cultures. Leadership, 11(3), 335-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715014536920

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This paper critiques contemporary leadership theory through a historiography of anthropological accounts. Through this review, the paper highlights a number of nuances in the conceptualisation of leadership from differin... Read More about Anthropological accounts of leadership: Historical and geographical interpretations from indigenous cultures.

Exploring power assumptions in the leadership and management debate (2015)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., Schedlitzki, D., Turnbull, S., & Gill, R. (2015). Exploring power assumptions in the leadership and management debate. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 36(3), 328-343. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-02-2013-0015

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to take a fresh look at the leadership and management debate through exploring underlying power assumptions in the literature. Design/methodology/approach - The paper is a con... Read More about Exploring power assumptions in the leadership and management debate.

Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning (2015)
Journal Article
Hawkins, B., & Edwards, G. (2015). Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning. Management Learning, 46(1), 24-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507613501736

© The Author(s) 2013. In this article, we argue that management and business undergraduate students who are engaged in learning about leadership occupy a liminal space or state of between-ness. Drawing on anthropological conceptualisations of liminal... Read More about Managing the monsters of doubt: Liminality, threshold concepts and leadership learning.

Using Creative Techniques in Leadership Learning and Development: An Introduction (2015)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., Elliott, C., Iszatt-White, M., & Schedlitzki, D. (2015). Using Creative Techniques in Leadership Learning and Development: An Introduction. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 17(3), 279-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422315586616

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. The Problem Leadership development programs have become prolific in organizations in both the public and private sectors, with new initiatives endlessly being developed. Empirical and conceptual work that challenges some... Read More about Using Creative Techniques in Leadership Learning and Development: An Introduction.

Exploring Critical Perspectives of Toxic and Bad Leadership Through Film (2015)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., Schedlitzki, D., Ward, J., & Wood, M. (2015). Exploring Critical Perspectives of Toxic and Bad Leadership Through Film. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 17(3), 363-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422315587903

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. The Problem This article considers concepts of toxic and bad leadership from a critical, post-structuralist perspective and illustrates how this can be conveyed to management students through the use of film analysis. In... Read More about Exploring Critical Perspectives of Toxic and Bad Leadership Through Film.

A Cultural Approach to Evaluating Leadership Development (2013)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., & Turnbull, S. (2013). A Cultural Approach to Evaluating Leadership Development. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 15(1), 46-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422312467144

The Problem. Current thinking around the evaluation of leadership development programs pays insufficient attention to the way that learning to lead becomes embedded and affected by the cultural context within which leaders and leadership operate. The... Read More about A Cultural Approach to Evaluating Leadership Development.

Special Issue on New Paradigms in Evaluating Leadership Development (2013)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., & Turnbull, S. (2013). Special Issue on New Paradigms in Evaluating Leadership Development. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 15(1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422312467147

The Problem. Evaluation of leadership development programs has been criticized recently for being based too much on structured evaluation models that do not account for more broad based outcomes and interpretations of leadership development. The Solu... Read More about Special Issue on New Paradigms in Evaluating Leadership Development.

Critical and alternative approaches to leadership learning and development (2013)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., Elliott, C., Iszatt-White, M., & Schedlitzki, D. (2013). Critical and alternative approaches to leadership learning and development. Management Learning, 44(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507612473929

This article is the introduction to the special issue on 'Critical and Alternative Approaches to Leadership Learning and Development'. This article reviews the past approaches to researching and theorising about leadership learning and development an... Read More about Critical and alternative approaches to leadership learning and development.

The MLQ factor structure in a UK context (2012)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., Schyns, B., Gill, R., & Higgs, M. (2012). The MLQ factor structure in a UK context. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 33(4), 369-382. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437731211229304

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factor structure of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) in a UK context. For a number of years studies have failed to reproduce the original MLQ factor structure. A paper published i... Read More about The MLQ factor structure in a UK context.

Transformational leadership across hierarchical levels in UK manufacturing organizations (2012)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., & Gill, R. (2012). Transformational leadership across hierarchical levels in UK manufacturing organizations. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 33(1), 25-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437731211193106

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on an empirical study of the effectiveness of transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership across hierarchical levels in manufacturing organizations in the UK. The aim was to develop a f... Read More about Transformational leadership across hierarchical levels in UK manufacturing organizations.

Are penalty shootouts racist? (2007)
Journal Article
Billsberry, J., Nelson, P., van Meurs, N., & Edwards, G. (2007). Are penalty shootouts racist?. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 6(10), 98

Leadership Development for Organizational Change in a New U.K. University (2005)
Journal Article
Turnbull, S., & Edwards, G. (2005). Leadership Development for Organizational Change in a New U.K. University. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 7(3), 396-413. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422305277178

The problem and the solution. This article reports on the findings of a case study of an organizational development intervention within a new university in the United Kingdom. Previous research into the leadership of higher education has highlighted... Read More about Leadership Development for Organizational Change in a New U.K. University.