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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822958803321

Titolo

Introduction to modern leadership

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005

ISBN

1-280-70618-X

9786610706181

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

68 p

Collana

Journal of European Industrial Training ; ; v.29, no. 3

Disciplina

658.4;658.4092

Soggetti

Leadership

Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Introduction -- Leadership excellence: Learning from an exploratory study on leadership systems in large multinationals -- Leadership: experience is the best teacher -- Leadership in high-performance teams: a model for superior team performance -- Learning the soft skills of leadership -- Preferred leadership behaviours: exploratory results from Romania, Germany, and the UK -- The changing nature of leadership.

Sommario/riassunto

Nowhere in the world of business are you likely to find a more strongly debated yet elusive concept than leadership. The earliest definitions of leadership painted it as a skill that only particular people possessed, a skill that made some people better than others at motivating and stimulating followers.