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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.

Worldly leadership and concepts of community (2012)
Book Chapter
Edwards, G. (2012). Worldly leadership and concepts of community. In S. Turnbull, P. Case, G. Edwards, D. Jepson, & P. Simpson (Eds.), Worldly Leadership (85-103). UK: Palgrave Macmillan

Concepts of community: A framework for contextualizing distributed leadership (2011)
Journal Article
Edwards, G. (2011). Concepts of community: A framework for contextualizing distributed leadership. International Journal of Management Reviews, 13(3), 301-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2011.00309.x

This review of the literature on community and distributed leadership marks out the potential for a more context-rich understanding of the nature of leadership. We begin by reviewing the literature on distributed leadership, noting a shift from clich... Read More about Concepts of community: A framework for contextualizing distributed leadership.

The changing face of leadership (2009)
Book Chapter
Edwards, G. (2009). The changing face of leadership. In F. Charity (Ed.), Charity Finance Yearbook. Plaza Publishing

Developing leadership for sustainable development (2008)
Book Chapter
Edwards, G., Turnbull, S., Stephens, D., & Johnston, A. (2008). Developing leadership for sustainable development. In N. Huber, & M. Harvey (Eds.), Leadership: Impact, Culture and Sustainability. International Leadership Association (ILA)

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.