Leadership: The Key Concepts

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ISBN: 9780415383653 | 041538365X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/11/2007

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This is an indispensable and authoritative guide to the most crucial ideas, concepts and debates surrounding the study and exercise of leadership. Bringing together entries written by a wide range of international experts, this is an essential desktop resource for managers and leaders in all kinds of institutions and organizations, as well as students of business, sociology and politics. Topics covered in this guide include: authority creativity cross-cultural leadership motivation emotional intelligence group dynamics.

The following terms and concepts will appear:Authority
Behavioral Theories of Leadership
Best Fit Approach
Change
Character
Charisma
Collective
Leadership
Command/Control
Contingency
Theories
Continuity
Culture
Delegation
Domination
Effectiveness
Ethics
Emotional
Intelligence
Empowerment
Followers
Future of Leadership
Gender and Leadership
Generalship/Great Man theories
Group Dynamics
Heroic Leadership
Identity
Influence
Integrity
Intellectual leadership
Leader as a model
Leader-follower relation
Leader
Leadership (definition)
Leadership development
Measuring Leadership
Moral leadership
Narcissism
Need for leadership
Organizations
Organisation culture
Participative Leadership
Philosophical approaches
Political
Leadership
Power
Professionalism
Psychology
Religious meaning
Responsibility
Self-Awareness
Servant Leadership
Situational Leadership
Social class/Status
Strategic Leadership
Strategy
Style theory
Subordination
Traits theory
Transactional
Transformational
Visionary Leadership All entries will include a clear and exhaustive definition of the concept
Some of the most controversial entries will also include a critical appraisal of the concept itself
Cross-references will appear at the end of each entry
Entries were selected according to the following criteria?
Terms in common usage associated with leadership
Terms used in cognate disciplines to refer to some of the same concepts which have a relevance to Leadership studies (e.g. biology, computer science, political science, Islamic studies)
Terms in common usage in organisational studies, which provide the conceptual context for Leadership studies
Included: an introduction, references for further readings (with a short commentary on that book's content) and a final index and an index of names
It will not include any illustrations, tables and/or maps
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