This study looks at leadership within the context of organizational behaviour, where the role of leadership in the job of middle management, and the role of the leader in small group dynamics is of particular interest. Covering topics such as: what are the implications for managerial leadership in the new era of "knowledge-worker" organizations?; what new paradigms of managerial leadership is the literature offering to help with this new agenda?; and how do we get the kind of commitment we need in circumstances where we are flattening out traditional hierarchies by laying off middle managers with many years of service?