Understanding behaviors for effective leadership created by Jon P Howell and Dan L Costley

By:

Howell, Jon P [author - New Mexico State University, College of Business Administration and Economics]

Contributor(s):

Costley, Dan L [author - (Deceased) Formerly with New Mexico State University, College of Business Administration and Economics]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Pearson Education, Inc. 2006Edition: SecondDescription: 416 pages illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0131484524

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HD58.7 HOW

Contents:

Part I Basic leadership concepts and issues; Chapter 1 - Leadership and its importance, 2 - Leadership behaviors and processes, 3 - Contigency models of leadership Part II Core leadership behaviors; Chapter 4 - Supportive leadership behaviors, 5 - Directive leadership behavior, 6 - Participative leadership behavior, 7 - Leader reward and punishment behaviors, 8 - Charismatic leadership behavior Part III Emerging leadership behaviors; Chapter 9 - Boundary spanning and team leadership, 10 - Building social exchanges and fairness, 11 - Followership Part IV Current leadership issues and integration; Chapter 12 - Leadership ethics and diversity, 13 - Leadership development and organizational change, 14 - Integration and conclusions.

Summary: Providing a comprehensive review of the major behavior patterns that effective leaders use to influence followers, this book keys in on what effective leaders really do and emphasizes how leaders can diagnose and modify situations and followers to make their leadership a more positive and productive endeavor. Organized into an easy-to-follow four-part structure: Part I introduces the concept of leadership, the approach of the book, and descriptions and evaluations of several currently popular situational leadership theories. Part II describes the five core leadership behavior patterns (supportiveness, directiveness, participation, reward/punishment, and charismatic behavior). Part III examines less-researched leader behavior patterns such as boundary-spanning, building social exchanges, and followership. Part IV describes the current leadership issues of ethics, diversity, leadership development, and change, with a concluding chapter that integrates findings from earlier chapters and describes popular leadership styles that are combinations of the specific leader behaviors described earlier. For leadership roles found in business, nursing, military science, criminal justice, education, government or agriculture.

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Includes index.

Providing a comprehensive review of the major behavior patterns that effective leaders use to influence followers, this book keys in on what effective leaders really do and emphasizes how leaders can diagnose and modify situations and followers to make their leadership a more positive and productive endeavor. Organized into an easy-to-follow four-part structure: Part I introduces the concept of leadership, the approach of the book, and descriptions and evaluations of several currently popular situational leadership theories. Part II describes the five core leadership behavior patterns (supportiveness, directiveness, participation, reward/punishment, and charismatic behavior). Part III examines less-researched leader behavior patterns such as boundary-spanning, building social exchanges, and followership. Part IV describes the current leadership issues of ethics, diversity, leadership development, and change, with a concluding chapter that integrates findings from earlier chapters and describes popular leadership styles that are combinations of the specific leader behaviors described earlier. For leadership roles found in business, nursing, military science, criminal justice, education, government or agriculture.

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