Routledge Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends

This third edition of Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends builds on the success of the previous versions, with new and updated chapters providing fresh and lively insights into a subject that can often be tricky to pin down. Leadership in Organizations carefully balances theory and practice, including critical perspectives, to examine fundamental questions about the meaning of leadership, its use and its development. Readers will benefit from the text’s rich use of cases and examples of real-life tensions, challenges and successful outcomes of leadership practice. The book also sets itself apart through its distinctive focus on leadership within the wider contexts of politics, economics and public policy, as well as organizational behaviour and management. New elements for this edition include: The moral pitfalls of leadership Leadership roles under crisis conditions Fresh analysis of the impact of leadership on performance outcomes This is the ideal text for advanced students of leadership studies, as well as practitioners looking to deepen their understanding of the leadership process and to enhance their leadership skills. Review ‘In this volume the redoubtable John Storey has done it again: assembling a first-rate cast of contributors and getting them to deliver their best work. This new edition of Leadership in Organizations tells us where the frontline in our knowledge about leadership is, in both public and private organisations, and where it is going. A real gem - highly recommended.’ - Paul 't Hart, Utrecht University and Netherlands School of Public Administration, The Netherlands ‘Leadership continues to be both relevant and misunderstood. This excellent volume reinforces the value of leadership and offers unique insights on improving leadership.’ - Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor of Business, University of Michigan, USA About the Author John Storey is Professor of Management at The Open University Business School, UK. He has worked as a consultant to a number of organizations in the public and private sectors. He has authored and edited more than twenty books on business, management and organizations.