Overview
Main description
The Sixth Edition of Pierce and Newstrom’s Leaders and the Leadership Process is a collection of readings, self-assessments, case studies and experiential exercises on leadership intended to give students a feel for the breadth and richness of this study. Leaders and the Leadership Process 6e provides students with a sense of the complexity associated with leadership in organizations as well as an understanding of the pieces that serve to define leadership. The authors create a "leadership mosaic," which encourages students to examine the concepts, propositions, perspectives, and theories individually as they build towards the student’s ultimate unique leadership mosaic.
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to LeadershipChapter 2: The Leader-Follower Relationship: Leader-Member Exchange Quality, Justice, and Trust Chapter 3: The Leader: Personality, Motives and Other Personal QualitiesChapter 4: Leadership and the Role of Sex and Gender Chapter 5: Leader Emergence: A Dynamic ProcessChapter 6: Leadership as an Influence ProcessChapter 7: Leadership and Leader BehaviorsChapter 8: Contingency and Path-Goal Theories of Leadership: Situational and Follower DifferencesChapter 9: Leadership and the Cross-cultural ContextChapter 10: Followers and the Leadership ProcessChapter 11: Leadership Style: Participative, Directive, and Laissez-faireChapter 12: Substitutes for LeadershipChapter 13: Charismatic LeadershipChapter 14: Transformational LeadershipChapter 15: The Negative (Dark) Side of Leadership Chapter 16: Positive Leadership: Spiritual, Ethical, and Authentic
