Leadership Books

New and Published Books

1. Sustainability for Healthcare Management

   A Leadership Imperative

   By Carrie R. Rich, J. Knox Singleton, Seema S. Wadhwa

   Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book challenges healthcare leaders to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It links health values with sustainability drivers in order...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Becoming a Trustworthy Leader

   Psychology and Practice

   By Aneil K. Mishra, Karen E. Mishra

   Series: LEADERSHIP: Research and Practice

   It's time to discover a new way for individuals to lead organizations and societies. Trust in a variety of institutions, including governmental and business, is at an all-time low. In order to strengthen society from its foundations, we need to rebuild trust. Research shows that...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge Academic
3. Building Leaders

   Paving the Path for Emerging Leaders

   By Charles R. Stoner, Jason S. Stoner

   This book is written for emerging leaders. It is designed to help these leaders bridge the gap from stepping into a position of leadership and emerging as a confident and respected difference-maker. Within this text, award-winning scholar and leader-coach Charles Stoner meets emerging leaders...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Management Frameworks

   Aligning Strategic Thinking and Execution

   By Jacques Kemp, Andreas Schotter, Morgen Witzel

   Today’s business organizations, especially large ones, are complex places; difficult to manage and to control. Much of this complexity is self-induced and too much of the management of these organizations is done on an ad hoc basis. Different reporting, control and management systems are used in...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Collective Learning for Transformational Change

   A Guide to Collaborative Action

   By Valerie A. Brown, Judith A. Lambert

   The drive for change has informed human endeavour throughout history. From fields to factories to offices, people have always asked how to make things better. This innovative book offers a step by step guide for recognising the need for transformational change and kick-starting a course of...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Global Leadership 2e

   Research, Practice, and Development, 2nd Edition

   By Mark E. Mendenhall, Joyce Osland, Allan Bird, Gary R. Oddou, Martha Maznevski, Michael Stevens, Günter K. Stahl

   Series: Global HRM

   Global leadership has been frequently heralded by writers and executives as the key to sustained competitive advantage on the part of organizations. In addition, it is clear that the possession of leadership qualities and the display of leader behavior are requirements for individuals attempting to...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Developing High Performance Leaders

   A Behavioral Science Guide for the Knowledge of Work Culture

   By Philip Robert Harris

   Every leader has human resource management and development responsibilities. Using a behavioural science perspective, Developing High Performance Leaders will enable leaders throughout the various business sectors to increase the yield on their organization's human capital and help their team...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Leadership as Emotional Labour

   Management and the 'Managed Heart'

   Edited by Marian Iszatt-White

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Even if we don’t realise it, most of us are now familiar with the idea of ‘emotional labour’; that ‘service with a smile’ which everyone from cabin crew to restaurant or call centre staff is expected to give, irrespective of what they actually feel or think. This book considers the complex ways in...

   Published September 7th 2012 by Routledge
9. Organizational Histories of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations

   Edited by Michael Austin

   This book is based on an important but complicated question: How have nonprofit human service organizations sustained themselves over time? It documents the organizational histories of pioneering nonprofits that have unique missions and significant longevity – in one case, 157 years. This volume...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics

    Leading Organizations towards Sustainability

    Edited by Rune Todnem By, Bernard Burnes

    Series: Understanding Organizational Change

    Given recent financial crises and scandals, the rise of corporate social responsibility and the challenge of environmental sustainability, few would disagree that the role of ethics has taken centre stage in the management of organizations. In reality, however, organizations have found it extremely...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge