Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience
2nd Edition
Published on 31. December 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-07-114355-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text is organized around a conceptual framework for understanding leadership in a diverse organizational environment. It focuses on three specific skills of leadership: communication; followership skills; and specific situations including meetings and conflict. The book also covers changing managerial behaviour and the role of values and ethics in leadership. It integrates the primary themes of the text and includes sections on TQM, women in leadership and the global context of leadership.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Weight
1250 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-114355-4 (9780071143554)
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Content
Part 1: leadership is a process not a position; leadership is everyone's business; leadership is developed through education and experience; leadership involves an interaction between the leader, the followers and the situation; assessing leadership and measuring its effects. Part 2: focus on the leader; power and influence; intelligence and creativity; personality; values and attitudes; leadership behaviour; leadership skills I; charisma and transformational leadership. Part 3: focus on the followers; followers and followership; groups, teams and their effectiveness; motivation, satisfaction and performance; leadership skills II. Part 4: focus on the situation; characteristics of the situation; leadership skills III. Part 5: the big picture; contingency theories of leadership; changing contexts and conditions of leadership.