Leadership The Key Concepts [Paperback]

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.

Introduction

Advice and Dissent (Ruth H. Axelrod)

Aesthetic Leadership(Jonathan E. Schroeder)

Authority (Chris Miller)

Behavioral Theories of Leadership (Thomas Mengel)

Change and Continuity(Jonathan Gosling)

Charisma (Antonio Marturano and Paul Arsenault)

Complexity Theory (John S. Burns)

Contingency Theories (JoAnn Danelo Barbour)

Creativity(Christian De Cock)

Cross-Cultural Leadership (Dale Pfeifer and Brad Jackson)

Delegation (Mindy S. McNutt)

Derailment (Michael Walton)

Distributed Leadership (Richard Bolden)

Effectiveness (Richard A. Couto)

Elite Theory (Nathan Harter)

Emotional Intelligence (Pat Lyons)

Empowerment (Richard A. Couto)

Ethics(Joanne B. Ciulla)

Followers (Cynthia J. Bean)

Gender and Leadership (Donna Ladkin)

Great Man Theory (Nathan Harter)