Management: Leadership & Motivation

When the global economy and world order become uncertain, where do we look for a sense of where things are heading? Can the World Be Wrong? lays ou...

The dramatic recent advances and emergent trends in technologies have brought to the fore many vital and challenging questions and dilemmas for lea...

Confronting Corruption in Business focuses on the contextual issues that trigger corruption to give the reader a more thorough understanding of des...

This updated and expanded edition of Persuasive Communication offers a comprehensive introduction to persuasion and real-world decision making. Dra...

When the global economy and world order become uncertain, where do we look for a sense of where things are heading? Can the World Be Wrong? lays ou...

The book begins with a section delving into foresight analysis, strategic foresight, and scenario planning. It then examines the pressing contexts ...

This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement. Its essence is ...

Enterprise and entrepreneurship is of strong interest to policy-makers because new and small firms can be a key contributor to job and wealth creat...

This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement. Its essence is ...

In the increasing number of heavily projectized organizations, sustainable, commercial performance depends on their ability to measure and develop ...

Leadership Coaching offers a new model of coaching for leadership development. It explains how the brave model extends existing leadership theories...

Gender and Social Hierarchies offers a fresh and coherent picture of applied research from within social psychology on the intricate relationship b...

Leadership, the practice of focusing and motivating a group or organization to achieve its aims, is a much discussed but often misunderstood concep...

Ready to stand up and create positive change at work, but reluctant to speak up? True leadership doesn't always come from a position of power or au...

Companies that have acquired other enterprises through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have in essence become entities that are akin to the glob...

First published in 1983, this study investigates and compares three leading firms in the British iron and steel industry between 1914 and 1939, ana...

Volume 8 of Advances in Global Leadership includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across c...

Former Head of the Singapore Civil Service Mr Lim Siong Guan now shares his diverse experiences and fresh insights on leadership in his exclusive n...

First published in 1981, this edited collection reviews the operations of state-owned enterprises, examining the actual performance of such organis...

Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, and Jimmy Casas are widely acclaimed experts on teaching and leading and are pioneers in the education twitterverse, a...

Ask around in business circles, and you'll get a thousand different answers. But now, internationally-renowned leadership expert Dr Peter Fuda has ...

There are many master teachers who have excellent organizational and interpersonal relation skills who think about becoming assistant principals an...

In Project Risk Governance, Dieter Fink breaks new ground in two ways. Firstly, he places project risk management in the context of today’s organis...

This book examines the vital nature of the subject of leadership in Asia and looks, in particular, at the processes and practices within the Asia P...

Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today’s dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucaul...

Former Head of the Singapore Civil Service Mr Lim Siong Guan now shares his diverse experiences and fresh insights on leadership in his exclusive n...

First published in 1981, this edited collection reviews the operations of state-owned enterprises, examining the actual performance of such organis...

The second edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully updated with a synopsis of the latest changes in the fields of intercultural communi...

We all live in an interconnected world and for business leaders the last decade has seen a dramatic rise in the speed and scale of this interdepend...

Where collaboration is needed and silo working creates barriers to achieving this, the cost to organisations can be very high: a lack of shared lea...

Great leaders have always understood the power of stories. Through the stories they tell, the most successful leaders educate, persuade and bring a...

A basic dilemma confronting today’s manager is how to be both profitable and moral. Making profits through immoral means—such as deceiving investor...

Since the early 2000s, storytelling as a means of managerial communication has been increasingly advocated, with a focus on the management practice...

Our traditional ways of looking at economics, business and politics are not fit for purpose. The causes of the recent crisis were behavioural and i...

This book explores the interactions of theories of risk with natural disasters, health crises, and crises in the areas of science and technology. U...

We all live in an interconnected world and for business leaders the last decade has seen a dramatic rise in the speed and scale of this interdepend...

This fifteenth volume reviews the current status of many of the major themes that this series has explored. In each chapter, we challenged the auth...

In view of the approaching age of austerity for the public sector, leadership is likely to continue to become a key theme. This edited volume bring...

This book is based on an important but complicated question: How have nonprofit human service organizations sustained themselves over time? It docu...

Public Value speaks to our time - to the role that museums can play in creating civil societies, to the challenges involved in using limited assets...

Volume 7 of "Advances in Global Leadership" includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across...

This book explains four different aspects of leadership namely: self, team, global and social leadership. It also summarizes author's discussions w...

In the past twenty years, the countries that used to make up the former Soviet Union have seen plenty of change. There have been revolutions, youth...

Over a century has passed and yet there is growing evidence that knowledge workers across the globe today are as constrained by F.W. Taylor's much-...

What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does it mean to a...