Organizational Leadership - Hardcover

John Bratton is Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he teaches human resource management and leadership and is currently director of the university¿s Workplace Learning Research Unit. He has also taught at the University College of the Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada (1991-97), at the UK Open University (part-time), and at the Leeds Business School (1981-91), Leeds Metropolitan University, England. Bratton holds a B.Sc. in economics from the University of Hull; an M.A. from the University of Leeds; and a Ph.D. in industrial relations from the University of Manchester. His research interests center on the politics of technology, job design, and workplace learning.

Organizational Leadership" provides an incisive treatment of the gamut of the relevant literature, including the principal theories of management, leadership, motivation and teamwork. Even postmodernism finds a home here. This book is integrated within a useful framework which "...stresses the nucleus of leadership - context, leader and followers.

The broad and inclusive literature is interesting and informative.

This innovative, wide-ranging and stimulating textbook makes a valuable and distinctive contribution to the understanding and teaching of leadership issues. It is likely to become essential reading for many courses on leadership. Skilfully mixing theory and practice, the authors lead students through the burgeoning literature whilst drawing on extensive examples to illustrate their points, backed up with state of the art teaching technologies. The authors also go much further by developing their own Â'tri-axis modelÂ' of context, leaders and followers and by examining key questions like power, gender, language, communication and team-working; issues frequently neglected in many leadership texts. This is a very thought-provoking and thorough review of organizational leadershipÂ--I can highly recommend it!