About my research
Dr. Shapira is a retired senior lecturer of anthropology, sociology, and management at the Western Galilee College, Israel. He is a very experienced executive and vast managerial, sociological, anthropological and psychological education (PhD Tel Aviv University 1984). He has lectured 32 years at academic colleges and universities, authored four books, booklets for managers and many scholarly articles in both Hebrew and English. His most recent book, published by Routledge, is ‘Mismanagement, “Jumpers,” and Morality.’ His recent articles deal with moral rebel phronetic transformational leadership and protecting democracy by preventing leaders' autocratic Entrenchment through installing super-majority threshold escalators.
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- How Outsider Excutives became Phronetic Transformational Leaders
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- Preventing Autocratic Entrenchment Through Thresholds
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- Charismatic posture camouflaged kibbutz leaders dysfunction
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- Escalating super-majority thresholds for winning re-elections can bar leaders' entrenchment
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- New Solutions Needed for Timely Replacing Leaders Who Became Dysfunctional
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- Managers create employees' trust by admitting gaps of their know-how
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- Depicting Israeli kibbutz leaders as charismatic despite oligarchic dominance
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- Outsider-managed firms were mismanaged as executives concealed insiders-knowledge gaps
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- Managers Who Advance by Jumping Between Firms are Often Immoral
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