Group and Organizational Processes, Volume III:

Volume III: Organizational Leadership features a new theory for organizational leadership called LAMPE. The acronym signifies that it is a theory in which the links among Leadership, Authority, Management, Power, and Environments should be coherent and operational. Volume III fills voids in the extensive literature on leadership. Organizational leadership is more than individual leadership. LAMPE posits that there are four major processes involved. These are initiating, enabling, implementing, and sustaining organizational change. LAMPE focus on how organizational leadership practices work. It is a processual theory. LAMPE is firmly rooted in the previous two volumes of the series. It introduces new ideas, methodologies, and tools for its applications. LAMPE establishes organizational leadership practices that link organizational leadership to organizational effectiveness. The power of LAMPE is that it stresses how distributing leadership processes throughout an organization improves its effectiveness and adaptability. Volume III is directly useful to leadership theorists, practitioners, and management consultants.