Exploring Leadership aims to support the personal and professional development of both aspiring and experienced leaders. Investigating the complex dynamics of power, identity, and purpose in organizations and wider society, it critically examines significant global issues such as diversity and inclusion, the environmental crisis, and the recent Covid-19 pandemic to reveal the systemic nature of leadership in a complex and ever-changing world. Examples and case studies include: ancestral leadership in Maori communities; consideration of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as a transformational leader; and leadership paradoxes in the Singaporean Civil Service. The book is made up of five parts. The first part is concerned with framing leadership and the leader. The second part looks at leadership traits, styles, and the dynamics of leadership. The next part is about leadership within the organization. The fourth part is about ethics and alternatives to leaderships. The final part looks at emerging perspectives and enduring dilemmas. The final question is, where next for leadership theory and practice?
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Colin Combe
Introduction to Management contains four parts. Part One focuses on management principle and functions. This includes a look at management theory, planning, organising, leading, controlling, and decision-making. Part Two is about managing people and communications. This includes human resources management, motivation and communication, and teams and teamwork. Part Three considers management and organisation. It discusses organisational structure, organisational culture, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. Finally, Part Four is about strategy, change, and innovation.
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Edited by Sarah Birrell Ivory and Emma Macdonald
Introduction to Management looks at the field of managing in the real world. Placing issues of digital, environmental, and social disruption at centre-stage, it guides through the varied and complex reality of management. The book is made up of four parts. Part One puts managing in context and presents an understanding of the fundamentals of management. It then turns to exploring organizations and looks at managing through disruption. The second part is about managing an organization. It considers the external and internal environments, looks at organizational culture and change management. The third part focuses on people. This part starts off with a detailed look into human resource management. The chapters here also touch on teams and leaders. The fourth and final part is about managing through the value chain. The focus here is on marketing, operations, the supply chain, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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Marian Iszatt-White and Christopher Saunders
Leadership brings together the core themes and debates within the field and provides a critical analysis of leadership. Part 1 presents the basic frameworks and explores what we mean by leadership, how it compares to management, and why we study it. Part 2 presents essentialist approaches in chapters on early approaches to understanding leadership, transformational and charismatic leadership, leading teams and leading change, and authentic leadership. Part 3 presents relational approaches which include an understanding of leadership in which everyone is a leader, leadership as a social construction, leadership-as-practice, responsible leadership, and followership. The final part looks at how to develop as a leader and craft leadership practice and identity.
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Leadership contains two main parts. Part 1 presents the basic framework. It starts with an introduction and moves on to look at trait theory and other behavioural models. It considers the style approach to leadership, situational and contingent leadership, charisma and transformational leadership, and authentic leadership. The second part looks at related themes. Chapters here consider psychodynamic approaches to leadership, emotional intelligence, ethical leadership, and diversity and leadership. Other topics covered include power, influence, authority, teams, change, development, and strategy.
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Joe O’Mahoney and Calvert Markham
Management Consultancy consists of four parts. The first part provides a descriptive perspective. It outlines the consulting industry and the different types of management consulting. The second part provides the practitioner perspective and looks at clients, the consulting life-cycle, consulting tools and techniques, consulting skills, and how to run a consultancy. The next part provides a critical perspective and covers critical themes in consulting and the ethics of consultancy. The last part presents the career perspective and discusses careers in consultancy.
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Graham Winch, Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez, and Natalya Sergeeva
Strategic Project Organizing places emphasis on the strategic and organizational aspects of projects and their leadership. Structured around the Three Domains model, it covers all the fundamental project management concepts, whilst guiding the reader through the organizational challenges of enabling positive change. Through the lens of strategic leadership, this text discusses how to respond proactively to threats, as well as seize opportunities, in order to advantageously change the socio-economic environment in an organization's favour. The text also explains the tools and techniques adopted during the process of organizational transformation. All chapters offer review and discussion-based questions to encourage critical thinking. Real life projects featured in the case studies include the Eden Project, the Thames Tideway Tunnel and the Berlin Brandenburg Airport. The text is made up of four parts. The first part looks at the core concepts of strategic project organization. The second part focuses on the Three Domains model. Then the next part is about the three interfaces: the governance, commercial, and resource interfaces. The final part looks at the core skills needed.
