Leadership: contemporary critical perspectives /
edited by Brigid Carroll, Jackie Ford, and Scott Taylor.
- Los Angeles: SAGE, 2015.
- xxvii, 298 pages: illustrations; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the powers of leaders -- Part I: Classical theories of leadership -- Leadership, management and headship: power, emotion and authority in organizations -- Trait theories of leaders and leadership: from Ancient Greece to twenty-first century neuroscience -- Leading through contingencies -- Transformational leadership: secularized theology? -- Part II: Leadership learning and development -- Leadership, governance and strategy -- Difference and leadership -- Studying followers -- Part III: Contemporary perspectives -- Leadership and process -- Relational leadership -- Leadership without leaders: understanding anarchist organizing through the lens of critical leadership studies -- Leadership, post-structuralism and the performative turn -- Seeing leadership: becoming sophisticated consumers of leadership
Written from a global and critical perspective with a diverse range of cases and examples throughout, Leadership is an essential read for developing leaders operating within global and multicultural work settings.