Contemporary Leadership Perspectives

Catalog description

Reviews contemporary leadership theory and models emphasizing recent conceptualizations, such as relational, distributed, complexity, followership, and global leadership. Using these models as a diagnostic lens, offers students an opportunity to explore and develop real-world answers to the leadership challenges facing their organizations. Emphasizes personal leadership development, which allows students to expand, apply, reflect on, and refine their personal leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities to further how they steward their organizations. Understanding the theory and research underpinning current leadership practice is invaluable knowledge for any organizational leader.