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Leadership

By John Storey

ISBN-10: 1138825573

ISBN-13: 9781138825574

Management hasn't ever been extra very important – and divisive – than it's this present day. the assumption and discourse of the chief continues to be a serious think about organizational and societal functionality, yet there's glaring stress among the chronic specialize in the serious significance of person leaders and the expanding emphasis on collective management. The Routledge significant other to Leadership presents a survey of the contentious and dynamic self-discipline of management.

This assortment covers key topics within the box, together with advances in management idea, management in a number of contexts and geographies, management failure, management technique, and management improvement. subject matters diversity from micro reports to wider political analyses of management, taking in strange yet vital elements corresponding to portrayals of management in structure, media, and technology fiction. Contributions from sixty one across the world well known authors from sixteen nations make to be had the total variety of views, methods, and insights at the concept of management. delivering either a social sciences and a mental process, those transcend universal issues to supply different views on such subject matters as emotion and management, portrayals of management. This quantity situates management debates and proof inside modern management crises, whereas making sure that the explorations of the problems are of putting up with relevance.

With large and significant insurance of the most important subject matters and effective contextualization of subject matters in present occasions, The Routledge significant other to Leadership is the best source for graduate research in leadership.

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