Cases in Leadership
1st Edition
Published on 24. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-4129-5017-6 (ISBN)
Description
Cases in Leadership is a unique collection of 30 real-world leadership cases from Ivey Publishing plus fourteen practitioner readings from the Ivey Business Journal. This casebook helps business students gain a better understanding of leadership and enables them to be more effective leaders through their careers. The selected cases are about complex leadership issues that require the attention of the decision-maker in each case.
Key Features
Presents real-world cases related to leadership: Cases illustrate the complex nature of leadership in organizations from around the world.
Provides an entire chapter on Strategic Leadership: This chapter introduces students to a concise description of leading-edge thinking on Strategic Leadership.
Generates classroom discussion: Cases let students grapple with actual decisions that real-world managers have faced.
Offers much more than a packet of cases: The author provides summaries of concepts, helpful discussion questions, and readings for each chapter.
Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!
Additional instructor material including cases notes, preparation questions, discussion questions, and suggested further readings are available on CD.
Key Features
Presents real-world cases related to leadership: Cases illustrate the complex nature of leadership in organizations from around the world.
Provides an entire chapter on Strategic Leadership: This chapter introduces students to a concise description of leading-edge thinking on Strategic Leadership.
Generates classroom discussion: Cases let students grapple with actual decisions that real-world managers have faced.
Offers much more than a packet of cases: The author provides summaries of concepts, helpful discussion questions, and readings for each chapter.
Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!
Additional instructor material including cases notes, preparation questions, discussion questions, and suggested further readings are available on CD.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 187 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-5017-6 (9781412950176)
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Laura K. Guerrero | W. Glenn Rowe
Cases in Leadership
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Person
W. Glenn Rowe served in the Canadian Navy for 22 years. While still in the navy, he completed his MBA degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland part-time (1983-1986) and taught on a part-time basis for 2 years (1986-1988) in Memorial's Faculty of Business Administration. In 1990, he retired from the navy and became a full-time lecturer in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial. In 1992, he began studying leadership within the context of strategic management at Texas A&M University, where he completed his PhD in 1996. He rejoined the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial in September 1995, where he taught strategic management and strategic leadership. Professor Rowe joined the Ivey Business School on July 1, 2001. He served as the faculty adviser for the PhD program in general management (including strategy) from January 2002 to July 2009. From July 2009 to June 2012, he served as the director of Ivey's Executive MBA Program. He currently serves as the coordinator for the General Management Area Group. He has taught strategy and strategic leadership to undergraduate business students, MBAs and EMBAs. He taught a strategy doctoral seminar from 2003 to 2009. In January 2016, he was appointed as the Executive Director, Ivey Publishing where he oversees Ivey's case publishing operation and the Ivey Business Journal.
Professor Rowe serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several academic journals and is active in the community. He has facilitated strategic-thinking sessions for several organizations including a couple of banks, a fish farming company, and others such as the Alliance for the Control of Tobacco (Newfoundland and Labrador), the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association, Fishery Products International, Gros Morne National Park, and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. He was the coauthor of a strategic management textbook and its associated casebook, both of which went to a their third edition. He is a co-author on a second strategic management textbook having joined the author team for the 9th edition. His research is published in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Management, the Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of Business Ethics and the Journal of Management Inquiry.
Professor Rowe serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several academic journals and is active in the community. He has facilitated strategic-thinking sessions for several organizations including a couple of banks, a fish farming company, and others such as the Alliance for the Control of Tobacco (Newfoundland and Labrador), the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association, Fishery Products International, Gros Morne National Park, and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. He was the coauthor of a strategic management textbook and its associated casebook, both of which went to a their third edition. He is a co-author on a second strategic management textbook having joined the author team for the 9th edition. His research is published in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Management, the Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of Business Ethics and the Journal of Management Inquiry.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Food Terminal
AmeriChem, Inc.
Are YOU a Leader-Breeder?
2. Leadership Trait Approach
LG Group: Developing Tomorrow's Global Leaders
Vista-Sci Health Care Inc.
Immunity from Implosion: Building Smart Leadership
3. Leadership Skills Approach
Office Design Partners (Thailand) Ltd.
Consulting for George Lancia
Building Leaders at Entry Level: A Leadership Pipeline
4. Leader Style Approach
Technosoft Russia
Healthcare Equipment Corporation- Managing in Korea
The New Infocracies: Implications for Leadership
5. The Situational Approach to Leadership
Brookfield Properties: Crisis Leadership Following September 11th, 2001
Elite Inc.
Making Difficult Decisions in Turbulent Times
6. The Contingency Theory of Leadership
A Difficult Hiring Decision at Central Bank
Christina Gold Leading Change at Western Union
What Engages Employees the Most, or The Ten C's of Employee Engagement
7. The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership
The Bay Kitchener
Blinds to Go: Staffing a Retail Expansion
Setting Goals: When Performance Doesn't Matter
8. The Leader-Member Exchange Theory of Leadership
Caribbean Foods Limited, Trinidad (Revised)
Moez Kassam: Consulting Intern
Leadership Ltd: White Elephant to Wheelwright
9. Transformational Leadership
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Knight of the British Empire
Red Cross Children's Home: Building Capabilities in Guyana (c)
Drucker's Challenge: Communication and the Emotional Glass Ceiling
10. Team Leadership
The 1996 Everest Tragedy
Century Park Sheraton Singapore
Why Innovation Happens When Happy People Fight
11. Strategic Leadership- Natalie Slawinski
Vic Young and Fishery Products International (A)
Compassion Canada
You're an Entrepreneur: But Do You Exercise Strategic Leadership?
12. Women and Leadership- Laura Guerrero
Anita Jairam at Metropole Services
Women in Management at London Life
Leveraging Diversity to Maximum Advantage: The Business Case for Appointing More Women to Boards
13. Culture and Leadership- Laura Guerrero
Salco (China)
Intel in China
Grupo Financiero Inverlat
Global Fatalities: When International Executives Derail
14. Ethical Leadership
Laurel Upholstery
Price of Speaking Out Against the Betrayal of Public Trust: Joanna Gualtieri
Pembina Pipeline Corporation
Ethics or Excellence? Conscience as a Check on the Unbalanced Pursuit of Organizational Goals
1. Introduction
Food Terminal
AmeriChem, Inc.
Are YOU a Leader-Breeder?
2. Leadership Trait Approach
LG Group: Developing Tomorrow's Global Leaders
Vista-Sci Health Care Inc.
Immunity from Implosion: Building Smart Leadership
3. Leadership Skills Approach
Office Design Partners (Thailand) Ltd.
Consulting for George Lancia
Building Leaders at Entry Level: A Leadership Pipeline
4. Leader Style Approach
Technosoft Russia
Healthcare Equipment Corporation- Managing in Korea
The New Infocracies: Implications for Leadership
5. The Situational Approach to Leadership
Brookfield Properties: Crisis Leadership Following September 11th, 2001
Elite Inc.
Making Difficult Decisions in Turbulent Times
6. The Contingency Theory of Leadership
A Difficult Hiring Decision at Central Bank
Christina Gold Leading Change at Western Union
What Engages Employees the Most, or The Ten C's of Employee Engagement
7. The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership
The Bay Kitchener
Blinds to Go: Staffing a Retail Expansion
Setting Goals: When Performance Doesn't Matter
8. The Leader-Member Exchange Theory of Leadership
Caribbean Foods Limited, Trinidad (Revised)
Moez Kassam: Consulting Intern
Leadership Ltd: White Elephant to Wheelwright
9. Transformational Leadership
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Knight of the British Empire
Red Cross Children's Home: Building Capabilities in Guyana (c)
Drucker's Challenge: Communication and the Emotional Glass Ceiling
10. Team Leadership
The 1996 Everest Tragedy
Century Park Sheraton Singapore
Why Innovation Happens When Happy People Fight
11. Strategic Leadership- Natalie Slawinski
Vic Young and Fishery Products International (A)
Compassion Canada
You're an Entrepreneur: But Do You Exercise Strategic Leadership?
12. Women and Leadership- Laura Guerrero
Anita Jairam at Metropole Services
Women in Management at London Life
Leveraging Diversity to Maximum Advantage: The Business Case for Appointing More Women to Boards
13. Culture and Leadership- Laura Guerrero
Salco (China)
Intel in China
Grupo Financiero Inverlat
Global Fatalities: When International Executives Derail
14. Ethical Leadership
Laurel Upholstery
Price of Speaking Out Against the Betrayal of Public Trust: Joanna Gualtieri
Pembina Pipeline Corporation
Ethics or Excellence? Conscience as a Check on the Unbalanced Pursuit of Organizational Goals