This book is your comprehensive guide to key leadership theories, topics and trends. It goes beyond the basics to explore contemporary issues such as power and politics, authenticity, followership, toxicity, language, identity, ethics and sustainability, enabling you to gain a deep, holistic understanding of the field.
Updated throughout with new examples, Critical Thinking boxes and further reading suggestions, the third edition of
Studying Leadership: Traditional and Critical Approaches is the ideal accompaniment to leadership courses across a range of subject areas, including Business & Management, Health and Education.
Lecturers can access a range of useful resources, including an instructor’s manual, selected SAGE Business Cases and videos, Power Point slides and a testbank, via the companion website.
Doris Schedlitzki is Professor in Organisational Leadership at Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University.
Gareth Edwards is Professor of Leadership and Community Studies at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England.
Table of Content
Part I Traditional Approaches to Leadership
Chapter 1 Leadership and Management
Chapter 2 Leadership Competencies: Traits, Personality, Skills, Styles and Intelligences
Chapter 3 Contingency and Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) Theories of Leadership
Chapter 4 Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
Part II Current Issues in Leadership
Chapter 5 Perspectives on Leadership Context
Chapter 6 Followership, Psychoanalytic and Relational Approaches to Leadership
Chapter 7 Leadership and Power
Chapter 8 Strategic Leadership and Leading Change
Chapter 9 Distributed Leadership
Chapter 10 Leadership and Culture
Chapter 11 Leadership Learning and Development
Part III Critical Issues in Leadership
Chapter 12 Leadership, Gender and Diversity
Chapter 13 Leadership, Ethics and Toxicity
Chapter 14 Leadership, Language and Identity
Chapter 15 Leadership, Arts and Aesthetics
Chapter 16 Researching Leadership
About the author
Gareth Edwards is Associate Professor of Leadership Development in the field of Organisation Studies at the University of the West of England.
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