Provides HR professionals and I/O practitioners an understanding of executive dynamics, development tools, and proven techniques for managing executives. Bringing together practitioners, this volume explores executive performance and documents executive-level human resource applications.

An essential resource for building and maintaining an effective leadership team, this book gives HR professionals and I/O practitioners a greater understanding of executive dynamics, development tools, and proven techniques for managing executives. Written by top-notch practitioners, this volume explores executive performance and documents unique to executive-level human resource applicaitons. It shows how effective executive performance is qualitatively different from that of middle level managers. It also outlines today's state-of-the-art corporate human resource practices, along with lessons learned, and provides guidelines and principles related to effective executive practices.

Foreword (Eduardo Salas).
Preface.
The Authors.
Part One: Defining Executive Effectiveness.
1 Deciphering Executive Failures (Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld).
2 What the Best Business Leaders Do Best (Anthony J. Rucci).
3 Understanding the Personality of the Executive (Leslie Pratch, Harry Levinson).
Part Two: Managing Executive Resources.
4 Selecting Leaders at the Top: Exploring the
Complexity of Executive Fit (Rob Silzer).
5 Leveraging Executive Teams: What's New (and
What's Not) in the Strategic Enterprise (Janet L. Spencer, J. Carlos Rivero, David A. Nadler).
6 Coaching Executives: Individual Leader
Development (George P. Hollenbeck).
7 Developing Executives (Val H. Markos).
8 Rewarding Executives (Marianna Makri, Luis Gomez--Mejia).
Part Three: Understanding Executive Perspectives.
9 Finding the Key to the Executive Suite: Challenges
for Women and People of Color (Karen S. Lyness).
10 E--Executives: Leadership Priorities for the
New Economy (D. Douglas McKenna, Robert B. McKenna).
11 Growing Global Executives (John R. Fulkerson).
12 Getting an Executive View: An Interview with
a Chief Executive Officer (Lawrence A. Bossidy, Marcia J. Avedon).
Name Index.
Subject Index.