TY - BOOK AU - Rahim,M.Afzalur TI - Diversity, conflict, and leadership T2 - Current topics in management SN - 1412842662 (hbk.) PY - 2011/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Transaction Publishers KW - Communication in personnel management KW - Conflict management KW - Organizational behavior KW - Organizational change KW - Negotiation in business KW - Interpersonal confrontation KW - Culture conflict KW - Transformational leadership N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Preface; M. Afzalur Rahim --; Managing diverse situations in organizations; M. Afzalur Rahim--; Part I : managing conflict and justice --; The moderating role of social attitudes in the relationship between diversity and conflict; Nailah Ayub and Karen A. Jehn --; Moderating effects of geographic dispersal and team tenure on the task-affective conflict relationship; Patricia J. Holahan, Ann C. Mooney, and Laura Finnerty Paul --; Fairness and consumer behavior : a WWJD (what would justice do?) analysis; Kelly Schwind Wilson, Donald E. Conlon, and Joel Koopman --; Part II : Leadership, social capital and personality --; Obama vs. Clinton : a study exploring the impact of leadership language; Diana Hargrove, Phyllis A. Duncan, Mark T. Green, Charles Salter, and John M. Trayhan --; Social capital via leader-member exchanges : an avenue to human capital?; E. Edward Stark and Franis L. Jeffries --; Relationship between the big-five personality and the financial performance of fund managers; Selin Metin Camgoz, Mehmet Baha Karan, and Azize Ergenelli --; Part III : Issues in entrepreneurship and small business --; Modifying Phelan's model : a conceptual framework linking entrepreneurs to international new venture competitiveness; Florinel-Frank Cotae --; BSL Printing Company : a case study; Joseph P. Lakatos, Donald R. Soucy, and Stephen J. Bukowy --; Part IV : Ethics, learning, and change --; Ethics, rhetoric and the self as an expanding web of conversations; Can M. Alpaslan, Sandy E. Green, and Ian I. Mitroff --; Flexibility, learning and control : entry mode choice under uncertainty; Mujtaba Ashan and Martina Musteen --; The politics-administrative continuum in American state governments : administrative accountability as a positive-sum pattern; Cheryl Miller and Deil S. Wright --; About the contributors N2 - Current Topics in Management, of which this book is Vol. 15, is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal which presents basic research in the theory and practice of management and administration. In these twelve essays, a multinational group of experts consider issues of organizational conflict from the small-business level up to that of international commerce and politics ER -