| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Perspectives on Individualism, Society, and Leadership |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
ForsythDonelson R., |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
HoytCrystal L., |
| Place of Publication: |
Basingstoke |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (198 p.) |
| Series: |
Jepson studies in leadership |
| Subject: |
Individualism. - |
| Subject: |
Collectivism. - |
| Subject: |
Social Science. - |
| Subject: |
Social interaction. - |
| Subject: |
Management: leadership & motivation. - |
| Subject: |
Management decision making. - |
| Subject: |
Society. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230116269 |
| Notes: |
Includes index. |
| Summary: |
This volume draws on disciplines as different as psychology, anthropology, history, and biology to explain when and why individuals act to promote their own self-interest (individualism) and when they sacrifice their own outcomes so that others may benefit (collectivism). |
| ISBN: |
9780230116269 |
| ISBN: |
0230116264 |
| Content Note: |
Cover Contents Introduction: Perspectives on Individualism, Collectivism, and the Greater Good One: What Do Capuchin Monkeys Tell Us about Cooperation? Two: Empathy-Induced Altruism: Friend or Foe of the Common Good? Three: Cultural Neuroscience and the Collective Good Four: A Brief History of Individualism in American Thought Five: Individualism, Collectivism, Leadership, and the Greater Good Six: Big Man, Big Heart? The Political Role of Aggrandizers in Egalitarian and Transegalitarian Societies Seven: Resisting Machiavelli: Reducing Collective Harm in Conflict. Eight: A Hippocratic Oath for Philanthropists Nine: Working for the Common Good: Individuals and Groups Address the Challenges Facing the World Notes on Contributors Index. |