Leaders and the leadership process

Häftad bok. Mcgraw-hill Education - Europe. 2008. 544 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. ///Publishers Preface: Several years ago the management and organization faculty at the University of Minnesota Duluth decided that the undergraduate curriculum needed a course in leadership. Claims that many of our organizations were overmanaged and underled and that the crisis facing American organizations was in large part a function of bad management and inept leadership led us to believe that it was important for our students to explore the subject of leadership in greater depth and to begin thinking about and looking at themselves within the leadership context. A course in leadership might serve as an important catalyst in fulfilling this objective. Today two decades later, this course remains one of the most popular within our management major, as personal, professional, and intellectual interest in leaders and leadership remains alive and well. A romantic notion for leaders (and heroes) is still intact. As part of the design process for the first edition of this book—a design that has guided the subsequent editions—we consulted several leadership scholars around the country, asking for assistance with the construction of a reading list for our new course. We informed these individuals of our decision to conduct an undergraduate seminar in leadership and asked them to help identify important material from the leadership literature. After compiling this list, we offered our first course. During the past two decades, this course has been offered on numerous occasions and continually refined. Mary Fischer, John Weimeister, and Bill SchoofofAusten Press encouraged us to take our undergraduate course materials in leadership and put them into book form. Their interest in our leadership class led to the creation of this book and its first editions.