The Business of Leadership: An Introduction: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780765621405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 404 str.

Karen Dill Bowerman; Montgomery Van Wart

Opis

Specifically tailored to business students, this undergraduate-level textbook features a how-to approach and is filled with current, lively examples designed to generate student interest. The text's career-based organization takes readers from the kinds of leadership they can exhibit in supervisory roles to the visionary leadership they must exhibit in management and executive roles for ongoing organizational change and revitalization. It provides a unique blend of a review of the major theories and the major competencies needed by business leaders at all levels of the organization.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1 Approaches for Motivating Followers, Achieving Results, and Inspiring Change, Description and Operational Definition of "Leadership", What Is "Management"? Overview of the Literature on Organizational Leadership, Constraints on Leadership, Leadership Passages: Developing Leadership Skills Over Time, I TRADITIONAL THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP, 2 Understanding Theories of Organizational Leadership: The Causal-Chain Framework, Leader Behaviors and Styles, Some Examples of Pure Styles, Intervening and Moderating Variables, Performance Results, Conclusion, 3 From Early Managerial to Transactional Theories of Leadership: Collectivist Versus Individualist Approaches to Leadership, Three Classical Approaches to Management, Trait Theory, Behavioral Theory: Blake and Mouton, Contingency Theory: Hersey and Blanchard, Interaction and Interactive Process Theories, Conclusion

O autorze

Karen Dill Bowerman (Author) ,  Montgomery Van Wart (Author)