Leadership
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
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- English
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Leadership
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
About this book
Written by a team of international experts and taking a truly global approach, Leadership: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is the essential guide to key concepts and contemporary concerns in leadership studies. This third edition has been revised and expanded to improve accessibility to complex theory and add cutting-edge content, including: •Three new chapters on how leadership shapes the spaces we live and work in, leadership during crisis, and populism and conspiracy theories in leadership
•A range of new case studies focussing on world-renowned leaders such as Greta Thunberg, Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump
•An updated 'Leadership on Screen' feature that looks at examples of leadership in film and TV, including Parasite and Peaky Blinders This comprehensive yet engaging text is suitable for leadership students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Instructors can visit the companion website to access valuable online resources, including PowerPoints for each chapter and carefully selected content from the SAGE Business Cases platform. Brigid Carroll is Professor in the Department of Management and International Business and holds the Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund Chair in Leadership in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Jackie Ford is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at Durham University Business School, UK.
Scott Taylor is an Associate Professor in Leadership and Organization Studies at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Sidebar List
- List of Editors and Contributors
- Guided Tour of the Book
- Online Resources
- Introduction: The Powers of Leaders
- Part I Classical Theories of Leadership
- 1 Leadership, Management and Headship Power, Emotion and Authority in Organizations
- 2 Trait Theories of Leaders and Leadership From Ancient Greece to Twenty-first-century Neuroscience
- 3 Leading Through Contingencies
- 4 Transformational Leadership Secularized Theology?
- Pregnancy, Not Incapacitation: Headship, Contingency, Traits and Charisma in New Zealand Political Leadership
- Part II Leading in Social Context
- 5 Leadership Learning and Development
- 6 Leadership, Governance and Strategy
- 7 Difference and Leadership
- 8 Studying Followers
- Is #MeToo Leadership?
- Part III Critical Challenges and New Lenses
- 9 Leadership and Process
- 10 Relational Leadership
- 11 Leadership without Leaders Understanding Radically Democratic Organizing through the Lens of Critical Leadership Studies
- 12 Leadership, Poststructuralism and the Performative Turn
- 13 Creating and Contesting Space through Leadership
- Is Collective Leadership Achievable in Organizations?
- Part IV Emerging Critical Perspectives
- 14 An Unconventional History of Leadership Studies
- 15 Embodied Leadership, Ethics and its Affects
- 16 Constructing Crisis, Constructing Leadership
- 17 Populism, Conspiracy Theories and Leadership A Toxic Triangle in Politics
- Glossary
- References
- Index