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• List of figures
• List of tables
• Instructor resources
• About the author
• Introduction
• Leaders featured in the ‘Perspectives from practice’
• Book outline
• 1 Understanding leadership: pioneering, influencing and motivating
• Introduction
• Leadership versus management
• Defining leadership
• Understanding motivation
• Summary: defining leadership and understanding motivation
• Exercises
• 2 Traditional approaches to leadership
• Introduction
• Early theories of leadership: the ‘great man’ and his traits
• Early theories of leadership: skills and behaviours
• Context-informed theories of leadership
• Summary: traits and behaviours
• Exercises
• 3 Modern approaches to leadership
• Introduction
• The Full Range of Leadership
• The Full Range of Leadership Model
• Followership
• Summary
• Exercises
• 4 New trends in understanding leadership
• Introduction
• Leader–member exchange theory
• Beyond the individual
• Leadership and pluralism
• Leadership as process
• Leadership as practice
• Summary: leadership in communities
• Exercises
• 5 Leadership contexts: from theory to practice
• Introduction
• Leadership and strategy
• Leadership and creativity
• Leadership and projects
• Leadership in dynamic, high-stakes environments
• Summary
• Exercises
• 6 Leading and diversity
• Variation in leadership by gender
• Women and leadership
• Explaining low rates of leadership amongst women
• Diversity and outcomes, the moral and businesses cases
• Summary
• Exercises
• 7 Leading and culture
• Cross-cultural awareness
• Studies of culture and leadership
• Cross-cultural leading in practice in organisations
• Leadership and culture at its simplest
• Summary
• Exercises
• 8 Leading and ethics
• Introduction
• Morality, leading and defining ‘good leadership’
• Leading and ethical variation
• Ethical leadership practice within organisations
• Rationalising ethical leadership
• Reviewing ethics
• Leading and ethics at its simplest
• Summary
• Exercises
• 9 Developing leadership and developing leaders
• Introduction
• The evolution of leadership development
• Developing leadership for the future in organisations
• Summary
• Exercises
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Index