Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience 7th By Richard Hughes (International Economy Edition)

Leadership: enhancing the lessons of experience, seventh edition consists of 16 chapters, four of which cover specific leadership skills and qualities covered in each of the book's four sections. Hughes, ginnett and curphy draw upon three different types of literature-empirical studies, interesting anecdotes, stories and findings and leadership skills to create a text that is personally relevant, interesting and scholarly. The authors unique quest for a careful balancing act of leadership materials helps students apply theory and research to their real-life experiences. The seventh edition has been thoroughly updated in virtually every chapter.new features:a new introductory chapter, "what do we mean by leadership?", combines the first two chapters of previous editions to create a more consolidated treatment of the material.a new chapter on leader development (chapter 2) eliminates dated material from earlier editions and also includes chapter 8 material from the sixth edition on development planning, coaching and mentoring. Chapter 5, "leadership ethics and values", now includes extended treatment of ethical leadership and more explicit linkages developed between ethics, values, ethical leadership, authentic leadership and servant leadership.a new chapter, "the dark side of leadership", discusses the concept of bad leadership - leaders who build teams to achieve immoral or unethical ends-reviews the research pertaining to managerial derailment and incompetence and describes the underlying reasons why people fail as leaders and how to prevent it.chapter 12, "the situation", includes extended treatment of organizational culture and leadership across global cultures. This chapter also takes a new look at the role of leadership in dealing with increasing environmental change.