The Nature of Leadership

ISBN 10: 1412980208 / ISBN 13: 9781412980203

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 2011

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Synopsis:

Written by a team of leading experts in leadership studies, The Nature of Leadership provides compelling answers to the most vexing questions surrounding leadership: Is leadership measurable? Are there traits that reliably distinguish leaders from nonleaders? Does the situation matter? Are there differences in women′s and men′s leadership styles? Is ethical leadership effective leadership? Are elements of leadership culturally bounded whereas other elements are universal? Does vision really matter? Can leadership be developed?

The new volume includes 16 chapters divided into five parts: Introduction, Leadership: Science, Nature, and Nurture; The Major Schools of Leadership; Special Topics in Leadership; and Conclusion. Topical coverage within these parts include research methods, leader and leadership development, evolutionary and biological perspectives of leadership, individual differences, situational and contingency theories, transformational, charismatic, and shared leadership, followership, gender, identity, culture, and ethics.

About the Authors: David V. Day is Professor of Psychology, Steven L. Eggert ‘82 P’15 Professor of Leadership, and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College (USA), where he also serves as the Academic Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute. He is the lead author on An Integrative Approach to Leader Development (Routledge, 2009) and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations (Oxford University Press, 2014). He served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology from 2008-2014 and is currently the Editor of The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review. Day is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the International Association of Applied Psychology. He is the 2010 recipient of the Walter F. Ulmer Research Award from the Center for Creative Leadership (USA) for outstanding, career-long contributions to applied leadership research.

John Antonakis is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Prof. Antonakis’ research is currently focused on predictors and outcomes of leadership, leadership development, psychometrics, as well as on research methods. He has published articles in prestigious journals including Science, Psychological Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Harvard Business Review, among many others. He has been awarded or directed research funds totaling over $2.45 million. Prof. Antonakis is Editor in Chief of The Leadership Quarterly, and also serves on the editorial boards of many top journals in management and applied psychology. He has twice won The Leadership Quarterly best article-of-the-year award. He fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology as well as of the Association for Psychological Science.

Affiliations:

University of Lausanne

John Antonakis has a Web Site at: http://www.hec.unil.ch/people/jantonakis

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Nature of Leadership
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 2nd Edition