S Alexander Haslam (Alex Haslam) is Professor of Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland. Together with colleagues, he has written and edited 15 books and over 300 research articles and chapters. His most recent books are The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power (with Steve Reicher and Michael Platow, 2nd ed. 2020) and Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies (edited with Joanne Smith, 2nd ed. 2017). He is former Chief Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and former President of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association. He is a recipient of the European Association of Social Psychology’s Kurt Lewin Medal for research excellence, and the International Society of Political Psychology’s Nevitt Sanford Award for contributions to political psychology. He has also received awards for distinguished contributions to psychological science from both the British Psychology Society and the Australian Psychology Society. In 2022 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia “for significant service to higher education, particularly psychology, through research and mentoring”.Broadly my research addresses the issues of group behaviour and the individual-social relationship. More specifically, my recent research can be grouped into three areas. The first is an attempt to develop a model of crowd action that accounts for both social determination and social change. The second concerns the construction of social categories through language and action. The third concerns political rhetoric and mass mobilisation - especially around the issue of national identity. Currently, I am starting work on a Leverhulme funded project (jointly with Nick Hopkins of Lancaster University) looking at the impact of devolution on Scottish identity and social action in Scotland.

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• VOLUME ONE: LEADERSHIP AS INDIVIDUALITY: ATTRIBUTES AND ACTIONSDo Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War II - Benjamin Jones and Benjamin OlkenWhat We Know about Leadership: Effectiveness and Personality - Robert Hogan, Gordon Curphy and Joyce HoganLeadership: Do Traits Matter? - Shelley Kirkpatrick and Edwin LockeTrait-based Perspectives of Leadership - Stephen ZaccaroPersonal Factors Associated with Leadership: A Survey of the Literature - Ralph StogdillA Review of the Relationships between Personality and Performance in Small Groups - Richard MannThe Motivational Effects of Charismatic Leadership: A Self-Concept Based Theory - Boas Shamir, Robert House and Michael ArthurToward a Behavioral Theory of Charismatic Leadership in Organizational Settings - Jay Conger and Rabindra KanungoThe Description of Supervisory Behavior - Edwin FleishmanInterpersonal Values, Leadership Attitudes, and Managerial “Success” - Edwin Fleishman and David PetersThe Forgotten Ones? The Validity of Consideration and Initiating Structure in Leadership Research - Timothy Judge, Ronald Piccolo and Remus IliesConsideration and Initiating Structure: An Experimental Investigation of Leadership Traits - Aaron Lowin, William Hrapchak and Michael KavanaghA Path Goal Theory of Leader Effectiveness - Robert HouseIntelligence and Leadership: A Quantitative Review and Test of Theoretical Propositions - Timothy Judge, Amy Colbert and Remus IliesThe Person versus the Situation in Leadership - Robert Sternberg and Victor VroomDoes Leadership Need Emotional Intelligence? - John Antonakis, Neal Ashkanasy and Marie DasboroughPredicting Organizational Effectiveness with a Four-Factor Theory of Leadership - David Bowers and Stanley SeashoreAuthentic Leadership: Development and Validation of a Theory-based Measure? - Fred Walumbwa, Bruce Avolio, William Gardner, Tara Wernsing and Suzanne PetersonUsing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a Tool for Leadership Development? Apply with Caution - James MichaelVOLUME TWO: LEADERSHIP AS PERSON-SITUATION FIT: CONTEXT AND CONTINGENCYToward a Contingency Theory of Leadership Based upon the Consideration and Initiating Structure Literature - Steven Kerr, Chester Schriesheim, Charles Murphy and Ralph StogdillModerator Variables in Leadership Research - Jon Howell, Peter Dorfman and Steven KerrAn Interactional View of the Emergence of Leadership - Cecil GibbValidation and Extension of the Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness: A Review of Empirical Findings - Fred FiedlerA Meta-Analytic Investigation of Fiedler′s Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness - Michael Strube and Joseph GarciaContingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness: Antecedent and Evidential Results - George Graen, Kenneth Alvares, James Orris and Joseph MartellaThe Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness: An Evaluation - Ahmed AshourLeadership in Boundaryless Organizations: Disposable or Indispensable? - Boas ShamirIn the Eye of the Beholder: Cross-Cultural Lessons in Leadership from Project GLOBE - Mansour Javidan, Peter Dorfman, Mary Sully de Luque and Robert HouseThe Forgotten Follower: A Contingency Model of Leadership and Follower Self-Leadership - Seokhwa Yun, Jonathan Cox and Henry Sims, JrSubstitutes for Leadership: Their Meaning and Measurement - Steven Kerr and John JermierCan Leadership Be Taught? Perspectives from Management Educators - Jonathan DohThe Effectiveness of Managerial Leadership Development Programs: A Meta-Analysis of Studies from 1982 to 2001 - Doris Collins and Elwood Holton IIIResearch on Leadership Selection and Training: One View of the Future - Fred FiedlerVOLUME THREE: LEADERSHIP AS FOLLOWERSHIP: TRANSACTION AND TRANSFORMATIONThe End of Leadership: Exemplary Leadership Is Impossible without Full Inclusion, Initiatives, and Cooperation of Followers - Warren BennisThe Essential Interdependence of Leadership and Followership - Edwin HollanderTwo Decades of Research and Development in Transformational Leadership - Bernard BassFrom Transactional to Transformational Leadership: Learning to Share the Vision - Bernard BassThe Credibility Factor: What Followers Expect from Their Leaders - James Kouzes and Barry PosnerA Test of Leadership Categorization Theory: Internal Structure, Information Processing, and Leadership Perceptions - Robert Lord, Roseanne Foti and Christy De VaderTransformational and Transactional Leadership and Their Effects on Creativity in Groups - Dong JungConformity, Status, and Idiosyncrasy Credit - Edwin HollanderLeader-Member Exchange Model of Leadership: A Critique and Further Development - Richard Dienesch and Robert LidenSocial Exchange in Organizations: Perceived Organizational Support, Leader–Member Exchange, and Employee Reciprocity - Randall Settoon, Nathan Bennett and Robert LidenExploring Work Unit Context and Leader-Member Exchange: A Multi-Level Perspective - Claudia Cogliser and Chester SchriesheimRole of Leadership in the Employee Withdrawal Process - George Graen, Robert Liden and William HoelFrom Ideal to Real: A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Implicit Leadership Theories on Leader-Member Exchanges and Employee Outcomes - Olga Epitropaki and Robin MartinFollower Behavior and Organizational Performance: The Impact of Transformational Leaders - Sabine Boerner, Silke Eisenbeiss and Daniel GriesserAn Evaluation of Conceptual Weaknesses in Transformational and Charismatic Leadership Theories - Gary YuklThe Two Faces of Transformational Leadership: Empowerment and Dependency - Ronit Kark, Boas Shamir and Gilad ChenVOLUME FOUR: LEADERSHIP AS MYTH: POLITICS AND PREJUDICEThe Fallacy of Misplaced Leadership - Martin WoodRole Congruity Theory of Prejudice toward Female Leaders - Alice Eagly and Steven KarauManagers Doing Leadership: The Extra-Ordinarization of the Mundane - Mats Alvesson and Stefan SveningssonLeadership: An Alienating Social Myth? - Gary Gemmill and Judith OakleyThe Romance of Leadership - James Meindl, Sanford Ehrlich and Janet DukerichAll Things to All People? Perceptions, Attributions, and Constructions of Leadership - Michael BresnenThe Ambiguity of Leadership - Jeffrey PfefferHow Can We Train Leaders if We Do Not Know What Leadership Is? - Richard BarkerInspecting the Emperor′s Clothes: Evidence That Random Selection of Leaders Can Enhance Group Performance - Alexander Haslam, Craig McGarty, Patricia Brown, Rachael Eggins, Brenda Morrison and Katherine ReynoldsThe Challenges of Leadership in the Modern World: Introduction to the Special Issue - Warren BennisThe Great Disappearing Act: Difficulties in Doing “Leadership” - Mats Alvesson and Stefan SveningssonGender, Hierarchy, and Leadership: An Introduction - Linda Carli and Alice EaglyThe Glass Cliff: Exploring the Dynamics Surrounding the Appointment of Women to Precarious Leadership Positions - Michelle Ryan and Alexander HaslamThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Leadership and Narcissism - Malcolm HiggsDestructive Leadership Behaviour: A Definition and Conceptual Model - Ståle Einarsen, Merethe Aasland and Anders SkogstadLeadership Ethics: Mapping the Territory - Joanne CiullaVOLUME FIVE: LEADERSHIP AS GROUP PROCESS: IDENTITY AND INFLUENCEMotivating Individuals and Groups at Work: A Social Identity Perspective on Leadership and Group Performance - Naomi Ellemers, Dick De Gilder and Alexander HaslamSocial Identity and the Romance of Leadership: The Importance of Being Seen to Be ‘Doing It for Us’ - Alexander Haslam, Michael Platow, John Turner, Katherine Reynolds, Craig McGarty, Penelope Oakes, Susan Johnson, Michelle Ryan and Kristine VeenstraSocial Identity and the Dynamics of Leadership: Leaders and Followers as Collaborative Agents in the Transformation of Social Reality - Stephen Reicher, Alexander Haslam and Nick HopkinsA Special Gift We Bestow on You for Being Representative of Us: Considering Leadership from a Self-Categorization Perspective - Michael Platow, Daan van Knippenberg, Alexander Haslam, Barbara van Knippenberg and Russell SpearsWhen and Why Leaders Put Themselves First: Leader Behaviour in Resource Allocations as a Function of Feeling Entitled - David de Cremer and Eric van DijkSeparating Leadership from Leaders: An Assessment of the Effect of Leader and Follower Roles in Organizations - Virginia VandersliceA Social Identity Theory of Leadership - Michael HoggA Social Identity Analysis of Leadership Endorsement: The Effects of Leader Ingroup Prototypicality and Distributive Intergroup Fairness - Michael Platow and Daan van KnippenbergLeaders and Their Treatment of Subgroups: Implications for Evaluations of the Leader and the Superordinate Group - Julie Duck and Kelly FieldingBeing Attuned to Intergroup Differences in Mergers: The Role of Aligned Leaders for Low Status Groups - Jolanda Jetten, Julie Duck, Deborah Terry and Anne O′BrienThe Link between Leadership and Followership: How Affirming Social Identity Translates Vision into Action - Alexander Haslam and Michael PlatowThreatened Leadership and Intergroup Competition - Jacob Rabbie and Frits Bekkers“License to Fail”: Goal Definition, Leader Group Prototypicality, and Perceptions of Leadership Effectiveness after Leader Failure. - Steffen Giessner and Daan van KnippenbergInfluence of Voice on Satisfaction with Leaders: Exploring the Meaning and Process of Control - Tom Tyler, Kenneth Rasinski and Nancy SpodickSocial Identity, Self-Categorization and Leadership: A Field Study of Small Interactive Groups - Kelly Fielding and Michael HoggSelf-Category Constructions in Political Rhetoric: An Analysis of Thatcher’s and Kinnock’s Speeches Concerning the British Miners’ Strike (1984-5) - Stephen Reicher and Nicolas Hopkins

S Alexander Haslam (Alex Haslam) is Professor of Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland. Together with colleagues, he has written and edited 15 books and over 300 research articles and chapters. His most recent books are The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power (with Steve Reicher and Michael Platow, 2nd ed. 2020) and Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies (edited with Joanne Smith, 2nd ed. 2017). He is former Chief Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and former President of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association. He is a recipient of the European Association of Social Psychology’s Kurt Lewin Medal for research excellence, and the International Society of Political Psychology’s Nevitt Sanford Award for contributions to political psychology. He has also received awards for distinguished contributions to psychological science from both the British Psychology Society and the Australian Psychology Society. In 2022 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia “for significant service to higher education, particularly psychology, through research and mentoring”.Broadly my research addresses the issues of group behaviour and the individual-social relationship. More specifically, my recent research can be grouped into three areas. The first is an attempt to develop a model of crowd action that accounts for both social determination and social change. The second concerns the construction of social categories through language and action. The third concerns political rhetoric and mass mobilisation - especially around the issue of national identity. Currently, I am starting work on a Leverhulme funded project (jointly with Nick Hopkins of Lancaster University) looking at the impact of devolution on Scottish identity and social action in Scotland.

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• VOLUME ONE: LEADERSHIP AS INDIVIDUALITY: ATTRIBUTES AND ACTIONSDo Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War II - Benjamin Jones and Benjamin OlkenWhat We Know about Leadership: Effectiveness and Personality - Robert Hogan, Gordon Curphy and Joyce HoganLeadership: Do Traits Matter? - Shelley Kirkpatrick and Edwin LockeTrait-based Perspectives of Leadership - Stephen ZaccaroPersonal Factors Associated with Leadership: A Survey of the Literature - Ralph StogdillA Review of the Relationships between Personality and Performance in Small Groups - Richard MannThe Motivational Effects of Charismatic Leadership: A Self-Concept Based Theory - Boas Shamir, Robert House and Michael ArthurToward a Behavioral Theory of Charismatic Leadership in Organizational Settings - Jay Conger and Rabindra KanungoThe Description of Supervisory Behavior - Edwin FleishmanInterpersonal Values, Leadership Attitudes, and Managerial “Success” - Edwin Fleishman and David PetersThe Forgotten Ones? The Validity of Consideration and Initiating Structure in Leadership Research - Timothy Judge, Ronald Piccolo and Remus IliesConsideration and Initiating Structure: An Experimental Investigation of Leadership Traits - Aaron Lowin, William Hrapchak and Michael KavanaghA Path Goal Theory of Leader Effectiveness - Robert HouseIntelligence and Leadership: A Quantitative Review and Test of Theoretical Propositions - Timothy Judge, Amy Colbert and Remus IliesThe Person versus the Situation in Leadership - Robert Sternberg and Victor VroomDoes Leadership Need Emotional Intelligence? - John Antonakis, Neal Ashkanasy and Marie DasboroughPredicting Organizational Effectiveness with a Four-Factor Theory of Leadership - David Bowers and Stanley SeashoreAuthentic Leadership: Development and Validation of a Theory-based Measure? - Fred Walumbwa, Bruce Avolio, William Gardner, Tara Wernsing and Suzanne PetersonUsing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a Tool for Leadership Development? Apply with Caution - James MichaelVOLUME TWO: LEADERSHIP AS PERSON-SITUATION FIT: CONTEXT AND CONTINGENCYToward a Contingency Theory of Leadership Based upon the Consideration and Initiating Structure Literature - Steven Kerr, Chester Schriesheim, Charles Murphy and Ralph StogdillModerator Variables in Leadership Research - Jon Howell, Peter Dorfman and Steven KerrAn Interactional View of the Emergence of Leadership - Cecil GibbValidation and Extension of the Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness: A Review of Empirical Findings - Fred FiedlerA Meta-Analytic Investigation of Fiedler′s Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness - Michael Strube and Joseph GarciaContingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness: Antecedent and Evidential Results - George Graen, Kenneth Alvares, James Orris and Joseph MartellaThe Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness: An Evaluation - Ahmed AshourLeadership in Boundaryless Organizations: Disposable or Indispensable? - Boas ShamirIn the Eye of the Beholder: Cross-Cultural Lessons in Leadership from Project GLOBE - Mansour Javidan, Peter Dorfman, Mary Sully de Luque and Robert HouseThe Forgotten Follower: A Contingency Model of Leadership and Follower Self-Leadership - Seokhwa Yun, Jonathan Cox and Henry Sims, JrSubstitutes for Leadership: Their Meaning and Measurement - Steven Kerr and John JermierCan Leadership Be Taught? Perspectives from Management Educators - Jonathan DohThe Effectiveness of Managerial Leadership Development Programs: A Meta-Analysis of Studies from 1982 to 2001 - Doris Collins and Elwood Holton IIIResearch on Leadership Selection and Training: One View of the Future - Fred FiedlerVOLUME THREE: LEADERSHIP AS FOLLOWERSHIP: TRANSACTION AND TRANSFORMATIONThe End of Leadership: Exemplary Leadership Is Impossible without Full Inclusion, Initiatives, and Cooperation of Followers - Warren BennisThe Essential Interdependence of Leadership and Followership - Edwin HollanderTwo Decades of Research and Development in Transformational Leadership - Bernard BassFrom Transactional to Transformational Leadership: Learning to Share the Vision - Bernard BassThe Credibility Factor: What Followers Expect from Their Leaders - James Kouzes and Barry PosnerA Test of Leadership Categorization Theory: Internal Structure, Information Processing, and Leadership Perceptions - Robert Lord, Roseanne Foti and Christy De VaderTransformational and Transactional Leadership and Their Effects on Creativity in Groups - Dong JungConformity, Status, and Idiosyncrasy Credit - Edwin HollanderLeader-Member Exchange Model of Leadership: A Critique and Further Development - Richard Dienesch and Robert LidenSocial Exchange in Organizations: Perceived Organizational Support, Leader–Member Exchange, and Employee Reciprocity - Randall Settoon, Nathan Bennett and Robert LidenExploring Work Unit Context and Leader-Member Exchange: A Multi-Level Perspective - Claudia Cogliser and Chester SchriesheimRole of Leadership in the Employee Withdrawal Process - George Graen, Robert Liden and William HoelFrom Ideal to Real: A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Implicit Leadership Theories on Leader-Member Exchanges and Employee Outcomes - Olga Epitropaki and Robin MartinFollower Behavior and Organizational Performance: The Impact of Transformational Leaders - Sabine Boerner, Silke Eisenbeiss and Daniel GriesserAn Evaluation of Conceptual Weaknesses in Transformational and Charismatic Leadership Theories - Gary YuklThe Two Faces of Transformational Leadership: Empowerment and Dependency - Ronit Kark, Boas Shamir and Gilad ChenVOLUME FOUR: LEADERSHIP AS MYTH: POLITICS AND PREJUDICEThe Fallacy of Misplaced Leadership - Martin WoodRole Congruity Theory of Prejudice toward Female Leaders - Alice Eagly and Steven KarauManagers Doing Leadership: The Extra-Ordinarization of the Mundane - Mats Alvesson and Stefan SveningssonLeadership: An Alienating Social Myth? - Gary Gemmill and Judith OakleyThe Romance of Leadership - James Meindl, Sanford Ehrlich and Janet DukerichAll Things to All People? Perceptions, Attributions, and Constructions of Leadership - Michael BresnenThe Ambiguity of Leadership - Jeffrey PfefferHow Can We Train Leaders if We Do Not Know What Leadership Is? - Richard BarkerInspecting the Emperor′s Clothes: Evidence That Random Selection of Leaders Can Enhance Group Performance - Alexander Haslam, Craig McGarty, Patricia Brown, Rachael Eggins, Brenda Morrison and Katherine ReynoldsThe Challenges of Leadership in the Modern World: Introduction to the Special Issue - Warren BennisThe Great Disappearing Act: Difficulties in Doing “Leadership” - Mats Alvesson and Stefan SveningssonGender, Hierarchy, and Leadership: An Introduction - Linda Carli and Alice EaglyThe Glass Cliff: Exploring the Dynamics Surrounding the Appointment of Women to Precarious Leadership Positions - Michelle Ryan and Alexander HaslamThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Leadership and Narcissism - Malcolm HiggsDestructive Leadership Behaviour: A Definition and Conceptual Model - Ståle Einarsen, Merethe Aasland and Anders SkogstadLeadership Ethics: Mapping the Territory - Joanne CiullaVOLUME FIVE: LEADERSHIP AS GROUP PROCESS: IDENTITY AND INFLUENCEMotivating Individuals and Groups at Work: A Social Identity Perspective on Leadership and Group Performance - Naomi Ellemers, Dick De Gilder and Alexander HaslamSocial Identity and the Romance of Leadership: The Importance of Being Seen to Be ‘Doing It for Us’ - Alexander Haslam, Michael Platow, John Turner, Katherine Reynolds, Craig McGarty, Penelope Oakes, Susan Johnson, Michelle Ryan and Kristine VeenstraSocial Identity and the Dynamics of Leadership: Leaders and Followers as Collaborative Agents in the Transformation of Social Reality - Stephen Reicher, Alexander Haslam and Nick HopkinsA Special Gift We Bestow on You for Being Representative of Us: Considering Leadership from a Self-Categorization Perspective - Michael Platow, Daan van Knippenberg, Alexander Haslam, Barbara van Knippenberg and Russell SpearsWhen and Why Leaders Put Themselves First: Leader Behaviour in Resource Allocations as a Function of Feeling Entitled - David de Cremer and Eric van DijkSeparating Leadership from Leaders: An Assessment of the Effect of Leader and Follower Roles in Organizations - Virginia VandersliceA Social Identity Theory of Leadership - Michael HoggA Social Identity Analysis of Leadership Endorsement: The Effects of Leader Ingroup Prototypicality and Distributive Intergroup Fairness - Michael Platow and Daan van KnippenbergLeaders and Their Treatment of Subgroups: Implications for Evaluations of the Leader and the Superordinate Group - Julie Duck and Kelly FieldingBeing Attuned to Intergroup Differences in Mergers: The Role of Aligned Leaders for Low Status Groups - Jolanda Jetten, Julie Duck, Deborah Terry and Anne O′BrienThe Link between Leadership and Followership: How Affirming Social Identity Translates Vision into Action - Alexander Haslam and Michael PlatowThreatened Leadership and Intergroup Competition - Jacob Rabbie and Frits Bekkers“License to Fail”: Goal Definition, Leader Group Prototypicality, and Perceptions of Leadership Effectiveness after Leader Failure. - Steffen Giessner and Daan van KnippenbergInfluence of Voice on Satisfaction with Leaders: Exploring the Meaning and Process of Control - Tom Tyler, Kenneth Rasinski and Nancy SpodickSocial Identity, Self-Categorization and Leadership: A Field Study of Small Interactive Groups - Kelly Fielding and Michael HoggSelf-Category Constructions in Political Rhetoric: An Analysis of Thatcher’s and Kinnock’s Speeches Concerning the British Miners’ Strike (1984-5) - Stephen Reicher and Nicolas Hopkins