Book Details

Art and Science of Leadership
Nahavandi’s text has an application emphasis with a cross cultural perspective on leadership.
This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. Here’s how:
Encourage Students to Apply Theory to Their Own Development:Strong theoretical coverage and cutting-edge research is presented.
Cross Cultural Focus:A cross-cultural, racial, and gender-based analyses of leadership is presented.
Keep your Course Current and Relevant:New examples, exercises, and research findings appear throughout the text.
Features
Encourage Students to Apply Theory to Their Own Development
Application Focus:Along with strong theoretical coverage and introduction of cutting-edge research, this book continues to be application focused and encourages students to apply the theory to their own development and into their current organisations.
NEWAll of the chapters now include Leadership Question and What Do You Do? pedagogical features that encourage active learning.
Each chapter starts with a “The Leadership Question” that focuses the student on the theoretical or practical issues covered in the chapter. The question is specifically addressed at some point in the chapter in “The Leadership Question – Revisited” segment.
Each chapter includes a “What Do You Do?” feature that presents a brief action-oriented scenario to help students connect the material with hands-on applications.
Acknowledgments
Part I Building Blocks
Chapter 1 Definition and Significance of Leadership
Chapter 2 The Global and Cultural Contexts
Chapter 3 The Foundations of Modern Leadership
Chapter 4 Individual Differences and Traits
Chapter 5 Power
Part II Contemporary Concepts
Chapter 6 Current Era in Leadership: Inspiration and Connection to Followers
Chapter 7 Other Leadership Perspectives: Upper Echelon and Leadership of Nonprofits
Part III Leading
Chapter 8 Leading Teams
Chapter 9 Leading Change
Chapter 10 Developing Leaders
References
Author Index
Subject Index

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