Organizational Leadership - Hardcover

This innovative, wide-ranging and stimulating textbook makes a valuable and distinctive contribution to the understanding and teaching of leadership issues. It is likely to become essential reading for many courses on leadership. Skilfully mixing theory and practice, the authors lead students through the burgeoning literature whilst drawing on extensive examples to illustrate their points, backed up with state of the art teaching technologies. The authors also go much further by developing their own 'tri-axis model ' of context, leaders and followers and by examining key questions like power, gender, language, communication and team-working; issues frequently neglected in many leadership texts. This is a very thought-provoking and thorough review of organizational leadership --I can highly recommend it!

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP examines the concepts, issues, and practices of organizational leadership from a global and interpretive perspective. The authors examine leadership through a variety of prisms and give competing and globally diverse viewpoints equal shares in the debate. An interactive CD-ROM is available, which includes interviews with academics and practitioners, self-assessments, and case studies. Companies profiled in the case studies are Ziba Design (Portland Oregon), Pamela Rodgers Chevrolet (Detroit, Michigan), Calgary Police Service, Banff Springs Hotel, the Body Shop and Volvo Cars.