Bruce Avolio

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Bruce J. Avolio (born June 17, 1953 ) is an American psychologist . He has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle since 2008 , and has been the Mark Pigott Chair in Business Strategic Leadership since 2013 .

Career

Avolio received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the State University of New York ( Oneont ) in 1975 . He moved to the University of Akron ( Ohio ), where he obtained a Masters degree in Organizational and Industrial Psychology in 1978 . In 1981 the Ph.D. followed at the same university. He moved to Binghamton University . Here Avolio did the groundwork for its success. In 2001 Avolio moved to Nebraska, where he held the Clifton Chair in Leadership at the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) until 2008 .

As part of his teaching activities, he led graduate programs and from 1998 to 2000 also the Global Center for Leadership Studies. Avolio has been a visiting professor in New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (1999), in Australia at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane (2000–2003), at the National University of Singapore (2000) and also at the United States Military Academy (2000) ).

Work

Avolio is internationally recognized for his research on leadership theory . As a senior executive and investor in Recurrence Inc., Avolio advised various US government agencies on leadership development. In this role he also advised various business leaders on all continents. He also advised the armed forces of the United States, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, Israel and South Africa on leadership development. His research on accelerating executive development was supported by multi-million dollar research grants.

Avolio claims to have started leadership when he joined the Center for Leadership Studies at Binghamton University in New York. There Bernard M. Bass dealt with leadership and with the thesis of James MacGregor Burns , according to which good leaders should develop the leadership qualities of their followers. Burns did not explain what properties should be developed in this case, however. Avolio cites his early work in the field of age research as a source of inspiration, where he examined the changes in people over time.

Together with Bernard Bass, he is considered to be the developer of the Full Range Leadership Model , where he delimited the leadership styles according to transactional and transformational leadership as well as the laissez-faire leadership style .

Honors

1999–2000 he received the SUNY-Binghamton Award for Distinguished Scholarly Research , and in 2013 Avolio received the Eminent Leadership Scholar Award Recipient of the Network of Leadership Scholars of the Academy of Management.

Bruce Avolio is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology , a Fellow of the Academy of Management , the American Psychological Society , the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society .

Publications

Books

  • Transformational and Charismatic Leadership: The Road Ahead (Elsevier Science, 2002)
  • Full Leadership Development: Building the Vital Forces in Organizations (Sage Publications, 1999)
  • Developing Potential Across a Full Range of Leadership: Cases on Transactional and Transformational Leadership (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000)
  • Leadership Development in Balance (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005)
  • The High Impact Leader: Moments Matter in Accelerating Leadership Development (McGraw-Hill, 2006) with Fred Luthans
  • Authentic Leadership Theory and Practice (Elsevier, 2006) with William Gardner and Fred Walumbwa

Articles in trade journals

  • Avolio, BJ, Walumbwa, FO, & Weber, TJ (2009). Leadership: Current theories, research, and future directions. In: Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 421-449.
  • Avolio, BJ, & Gardner, WL (2005). Authentic leadership development: Getting to the root of positive forms of leadership. In: The Leadership Quarterly, 16 (3), 315–338.
  • Avolio, BJ, Bass, BM, & Jung, DI (1999). Re-examining the components of transformational and transactional leadership using the multifactor leadership. In: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72 (4), 441-462.
  • Bass, BM, & Avolio, BJ (1993). Transformational leadership and organizational culture. In: Public Administration Quarterly, 112-121.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Faculty Directory. Bruce Avolio. University of Washington, accessed April 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Curriculum Vitae. Bruce J. Avolio. University of Washington, accessed April 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Bruce J. Avolio Ph.D. Director and Co-Inventor, Recurrence, Inc. In: Bloomberg. Accessed April 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Dr. Bruce Avolio. University of Texas, Arlington, Goolsby Leadership Academy, accessed April 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Russ Volckmann: Fresh Perspective. Developing Leaders: An Interview with Bruce Avolio. In: Integral Leadership Review. June 2011, accessed on April 22, 2018 (English, download as PDF available).
  6. ↑ Bruce J. Avolio, Bernard M. Bass (1991). The full range of leadership development programs: Basic and advanced manuals . Binghamton: Bass, Avolio & Associates.
personal data
SURNAME Avolio, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Avolio, Bruce J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1953