Organizational Leadership: Foundations and Practices for Christians. This item is unavailable.Organizational Leadership: Foundations and Practices for Christians

Kingdom leadership does not begin and end at the church door. Christians are called to conduct leadership in government, commerce, schools, neighborhoods, families, para-church ministries and a myriad other contexts. God has given us many gifts, and our responsibility is to be stewards of those gifts, and use them to do the King?s work. In that context, this comprehensive text explores key facets of leadership from a Christian worldview so as to equip people to conduct leadership more authentically than would be possible under alternative paradigms. The book begins with the seldom considered theological foundations of leadership while also tracing the historic roots of management, organization and leadership theories. All of this leads to a robust discussion of five essential challenges and practices--communication, negotiation, decision-making, financial stewardship and personal development. The combined efforts of these experts in the field provide a practical theology of leadership from a Christian worldview for emerging and established leaders. Here is the foundation needed for those who want to conduct leadership in a manner consistent with their faith in both religious and nonreligious organizational contexts.

John S. (Jack) Burns (PhD, Washington State) is professor of leadership at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. John R. Shoup (PhD, University of California, Riverside) serves as the dean of the School of Education at California Baptist University in Riverside, California. Donald C. Simmons Jr. (PhD, University of Denver) is the founding director of the McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service at Dakota Wesleyan University. He is the department chair and professor of public service and leadership at DWU.