The Leadership Experience

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Master the critical leadership skills and gain a solid understanding of current theory to become an effective business leader in today’s challenging environment with Daft’s ‘The Leadership Experience’, 6E. Explore the latest thinking in leadership theory and contemporary practices within organizations worldwide. Examine emerging topics such as enhancing emotional intelligence, leadership vision and courage, leading virtual teams, and open innovation. Connect these topics to recent world events, including ethical scandals and political turmoil. Packed with memorable examples and unique insights into actual leadership decisions, this full-color text features clear visuals to reinforce its engaging presentation. Proven applications, designed for today’s leadership theory and applications courses, and a foundation grounded in scholarly research bring the topic of leadership to life. Features: Experiential exercises challenge students to apply concepts and assess personal progress, with “leadership at work” exercises at the end of each chapter providing opportunities to face leadership challenges and test application of chapter concepts. These exercises and feedback questionnaires offer a tool for assessing personal leadership skills and progress. Chapter openers and “in the lead” memorable examples vividly illustrate chapter theories. Loaded with new examples of leaders in traditional and contemporary organizations, each chapter opens with an example that launches the content. Additional “in the lead” examples spotlight activities within diverse organizations, including education, the military, government, businesses, and non-profit groups. “Leadership bookshelf” reviews meaningful resources that build on chapter content. Each chapter highlights a recent book related to the chapter’s content, connecting students to emerging issues and topics that leaders are researching and discussing. “Leader’s self-insights” encourage students to examine personal leadership skills. Engaging “leader’s self-insight” boxes prompt self-assessment of personal abilities and aptitude for leadership through questionnaires, scenarios, and carefully selected activities. “Consider this!” features provide memorable insights into leadership topics with compelling pieces of timeless wisdom or inspiring quotes from famous leaders. Interactive cases offer online-exclusive cases for each chapter, including the full text and interactive activities with immediate scoring and feedback. Interactive self-assessments provide online versions of the hallmark “leader’s self-insight” assessments, with accompanying activities to link concepts back to chapter material. Media quizzes feature a complete set of leadership videos connecting text concepts with current, real-world situations, viewable online with accompanying assessment activities. Leadership at work activities may be completed and submitted online for those who prefer working in a digital environment. “Follow the leader” feature provides directives at the end of each chapter for relevant social media feeds of high-profile leaders and bloggers, offering a current, continually updated connection to the leadership world. Thoroughly updated examples reflect current trends and the evolution of leadership theories. Updated learning features such as “in the lead,” “consider this!,” and “leader’s bookshelf” reflect the most current business information and emerging leadership trends, preparing students for today’s challenges and changing roles. New and revised leadership development cases present current issues and leadership challenges, putting students’ skills to the test with problem-oriented cases requiring application of learned concepts. Enhanced test bank has been revised and updated, with tighter integration between the test bank and online homework problems for consistent question types and difficulties.

About the Author

Richard L. Daft, Vanderbilt UniversityRichard L. Daft, Ph.D., is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management and Principal Senior Lecturer in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, where he specializes in the study of leadership and organization theory. Dr. Daft is a fellow of the Academy of Management and has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management Education. He was associate editor-in-chief of Organization Science and associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Dr. Daft has authored or co-authored 13 books, including The Executive and the Elephant, Organization Theory and Design and Management. He also has authored dozens of scholarly articles, papers and chapters and he has published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management; Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Science, MIS Quarterly and Organizational Behavior Teaching Review. Dr. Daft has received several government research grants in organization design, organizational innovation and change, strategy implementation and organizational information processing. An active teacher and respected consultant, Dr. Daft has served as associate dean and helped manage a start-up enterprise. He has been involved in management development and consulting for numerous organizations, including the American Banking Association, AutoZone, Bridgestone, Vulcan Materials, TVA, Pratt and Whitney, Allstate Insurance, State Farm Insurance, the United States Air Force, the U.S. Army, Central Parking System, USAA, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

9789386650696 ISBN
Management
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