Written by an author team from one of Europe's leading management schools, Leadership encourages critical appraisal of the mainstream viewpoints and personal reflection on leadership experience in a way that is both clear and highly engaging.

Divided into four parts, the book brings together core themes and debates within the field and provides a wealth of diverse real-world case studies to help readers make the transition from theory to practice. The first part of the book, 'Defining the Terrain', lays the foundation for subsequent chapters by exploring what we mean by leadership, how it compares to management, and why we study it. The second and third parts of the book build on this, addressing core topics that have shaped leadership thinking for academics and practitioners over the last fifty years; as well as considering the cutting-edge debates within the field and tackling issues such as leadership-as-practice, strategic leadership, ethical leadership, and leading change. Finally, the fourth part, 'Developing Leaders', explores traditional and state-of-the-art development techniques, before encouraging the reader to consider their own leadership through identity work. Leadership mappings in the final chapter assimilate the range of theories and themes from the previous chapters, providing a framework for comparisons and connections throughout the book.

In addition to the book's thematic approach, carefully designed learning features invite readers to exercise critical thinking skills and develop their own practice and perspectives on the material presented.

New to this Edition:

• A new chapter on leadership-as-practice highlights a movement that is still being developed within the field. It encourages students to question how a practice view of leadership compares with more traditional notions of transformational, visionary, and charismatic leadership.
• The content is now further balanced to reflect both 'good' and 'bad' leadership, with a new chapter on followership, bad, and toxic leadership.
• Links to the films, TV shows, books etc. used in the 'Leadership in the media' boxes are now included in the video links online resource, giving lecturers more opportunities to better tie the book to their teaching.
• Revised case studies throughout now include contemporary figures, bodies and companies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, BP, Ray Kelvin, Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Theresa May.

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Part 1 - Defining the terrain
1: Why study leadership
2: Leadership, management and strategy
3: Leadership, power and influence
4: Critical approaches

Part 2 - Essentialist approaches
5: Born versus made
6: Transformational & charismatic
7: Leading teams and leading change
8: Authentic leadership

Part 3 - Relational approaches
9: Leaders and leading
10: Social construction of leadership
11: Leadership as practice
12: Responsible leadership for a sustainable world
13: Followership

Part 4 - Developing leaders: developing as a leader
14: Leadership development
15: Leadership identities

Marian Iszatt-White , Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University Management School

Christopher Saunders , Associate Dean for Postgraduate Education, Lancaster University Management School

Dr Marian Iszatt-White is a Senior Lecturer in the area of leadership at the School of Management, Lancaster University. Marian formerly held the position of Group Treasurer of top 100 plc Enterprise Oil, and also developed a freelance training and consultancy business. Chris is the Associate Dean for Postgraduate Education at Lancaster University Management School. He has over 20 years' experience in the design and direction of leadership development programmes for a range of different organisations. Most recently Chris has been Director of Lancaster's Executive MBA programme, taught in the UK, Ghana, and Malaysia. He has previously been Director of the Full time MBA programme.

Leadership is accompanied by a number of student online resources that include:

• Web links to related sites
• Links to feeds from topical journals
• Online glossary

The following online resources will be available for lecturers who prescribe Leadership for their course:

• Integrative case studies
• PowerPoint slides
• Suggestions for discussion points
• Video clips of inspirational speeches and discussions on leadership