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Leadership 101
Leadership 101
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- What are the relevant personality and
motivational traits of good (and bad) leaders? - Do leaders possess
different types of intellectual capacities? - How do effective leaders
behave and what kinds of people follow them? - What are the
contextual/situational factors that give rise to leaders? - How is
leadership influenced by gender, cultural differences, and social networks?
Professor Michael Mumford is one of the leading researchers
on the topic of leadership and organizational behavior. Mumford discusses the
predominant topics and approaches to studying leadership research, including a
review of research on leader traits and behaviors, situational influences on
leadership, the way in which leaders think, and outstanding leadership. The text
concludes with a discussion of emergent topics in the field. Embedded in each
chapter is information related to improving or developing leadership through the
topics discussed.
Key Features
Introduction to the history of leadership, extant definitions, assumptions, theories
and methods of study
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