Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-254) and index.

Replacing leadership with stewardship -- Choosing partnership over patriarchy -- Choosing adventure over safety -- Choosing service over self-interest -- Defining the stewardship contract -- Upsetting expectations : the emotional work of stewardship -- Redesigning management practices and structures -- Rethinking the role of staff functions -- Financial practices : creating accountability with self-control -- Human resources : ending the practice of paternalism -- Compensation and performance evaluation : overturning the class system -- Cosmetic reform : when the disease becomes the cure -- Recreating our organization through stewardship -- Cynics, victims, and bystanders -- Choosing freedom, service, and adventure. As a successful managing strategy for corporate. governmental, and nonprofit organizations, "stewardship" is, fundamentally, the spirit of partnership and service. This book explains how to integrate the management of work and the doing of work to redistribute purpose and power within an organization. --From publisher's description.