Books in the Christian Faith Perspectives in Leadership and Business series

This book examines the principles and procedures implemented by Moses for developing leaders. The author then delves into contemporary leadership principles, such as authentic leadership, and how organizations can develop leaders at every level of the organization.

Exploring topics such as agency theory, conflict, authentic leadership, and dark leadership, this book will offer researchers in HRM and leadership studies a fresh perspective of the fictional works of the foremost Christian apologist of the 20th century.

Through sound exegetical methodologies and the current research on organizational leadership, this book uses biblical examples to explore the realities of leadership fatigue.

This edited work uses the life and biblical teachings of Jesus to examine modern leadership theory.

Covering an array of leadership theories and related topics, this volume examines the scriptural foundations of being a transparent or authentic leader, exploring themes such as communication, trust, gender, and technology.

This book explores contemporary metaphors of leadership from a biblical or church historical perspective. This book will be a valuable addition to the leadership literature in showing how biblical leadership principles can be used in contemporary organizations.

This edited volume expands on Morgan's organizational metaphors through the lens of faith to illuminate organizational function. Metaphors used in this book include Pygmalion organizations, organizational zombies, and organizations as vineyards.

The chapters examine topics such as communicating through crisis, developing organizations and leaders through crisis, personal crisis and leadership development, and ethics and morality in crisis.

This book explores contemporary metaphors of leadership from a biblical or church historical perspective. This book will be a valuable addition to the leadership literature in showing how biblical leadership principles can be used in contemporary organizations.

This book examines the scriptural concepts that apply to leading and managing people. The book presents the four modalities of leaders as conveyed in the Ezekiel 1 and 10 chapters, as well as Revelations 4 where Ezekiel and John describe the four faces of the winged beings.

This book uses biblical writings to examine how to build wise and moral boardroom boldness to mitigate executive ethical mishaps. Introducing a boardroom boldness language model (BBLM), Buford presents five boardroom languages to use when dealing with toxic leaders.

The chapters examine topics such as communicating through crisis, developing organizations and leaders through crisis, personal crisis and leadership development, and ethics and morality in crisis.

This edited collection addresses several forms of moral leadership within the context of kenosis, bringing together both secular and biblical perspectives on the role of morality and self-sacrifice in effective leadership theory and practice.

This book focuses on how employees should work and follow in contemporary organizations. It begins with the call from Col 3:22-24 for employees to treat work as worship to God and to conduct their work to the best of their ability (Prov 22:29).

This book explores the concepts from Scripture for Servant leadership and compare these findings with contemporary models of servant leadership. This model will provide scholars and researchers as well as leaders themselves with a way of leading that overcomes negative forms of leadership which lead to failure.

This book examines the scriptural concepts that apply to leading and managing people. The book presents the four modalities of leaders as conveyed in the Ezekiel 1 and 10 chapters, as well as Revelations 4 where Ezekiel and John describe the four faces of the winged beings.

This book uses biblical writings to examine how to build wise and moral boardroom boldness to mitigate executive ethical mishaps. Introducing a boardroom boldness language model (BBLM), Buford presents five boardroom languages to use when dealing with toxic leaders.

These nine virtues span a wide breadth of important personal and organizational attributes including benevolence, affection, gladness, relational harmony, tranquility, perseverance, helpfulness, caring for the welfare of others, adherence to the beliefs and value of others, power used soberly, and mastering one's desires.

This book begins with the scriptural support for person-organization fit and person-job fit. The book then examines scriptural support for the four-Cs of people's work-fit: Calling, Competence, Confidence, and Character. The book covers two development concepts: Nomos, about ruling in an organization, and progressive responsibility from Luke 16:10.

It begins with a critical assessment of ethical leadership as a leadership theory, showing how ethics and theology became separated, creating the space for ethical leadership outside of theology.

This edited volume expands on Morgan's organizational metaphors through the lens of faith to illuminate organizational function. Metaphors used in this book include Pygmalion organizations, organizational zombies, and organizations as vineyards.

It begins with a critical assessment of ethical leadership as a leadership theory, showing how ethics and theology became separated, creating the space for ethical leadership outside of theology.

This book explores the concepts from Scripture for Servant leadership and compare these findings with contemporary models of servant leadership. This model will provide scholars and researchers as well as leaders themselves with a way of leading that overcomes negative forms of leadership which lead to failure.