The new psychology of leadership : identity, influence, and power / S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher, and Michael J. Platow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and indexes.

1. The Old Psychology of Leadership: Great Men and the Cult of Personality -- 2. The Current Psychology of Leadership: Issues of Context and Contingency: Transaction and Transformation -- 3. Foundations for The New Psychology of Leadership: Social Identity and Self-Categorization -- 4. Being One of Us: Leaders as In-group Prototypes -- 5. Doing It for Us: Leaders as In-group Champions -- 6. Crafting a Sense of Us: Leaders as Entrepreneurs of Identity -- 7. Making Us Matter: Leaders as Embedders of Identity -- 8. Identity Leadership at Large: Prejudice, Practice, and Politics.

This work gives an overview of the new understanding of leadership that has emerged in social and organisational psychology as part of the development of self-categorisation and social identity theories. The authors advance the argument that leadership is a group process grounded in the creation and control of group identity.