Eminently readable, current, and comprehensive, this acclaimed text sets the standard for instruction in college and professional courses on leadership, management, and organizational effectiveness in the public sector. The book includes key sections on leader assessment, characteristics, behaviors, styles, leadership theory, and evaluation and development.

Table of Contents

• Preface to the Second Edition
• 1. Introduction
• PART I: LEADERSHIP THEORIES
• 2. Theoretical Building Blocks: Contingency Factors and Leader Styles
• 3. Leadership Theories: Early Managerial and Transactional Approaches
• 4. Leadership Theories: Charismatic and Transformational Approaches
• 5. Horizontal and Distributed Models of Leadership
• 6. Ethics-Based Leadership Theories
• 7. Specialized Approaches to Leadership: Power, Culture, Diversity, and Gender
• 8. Integrative Theories
• PART II: APPLYING THEORY
• 9. Leader Assessments
• 10. Leader Formulation and Prioritization of Goals
• 11. Traits That Contribute to Leader Effectiveness
• 12. Skills That Contribute to Leader Effectiveness
• 13. Task-Oriented Behaviors
• 14. People-Oriented Behaviors
• 15. Organizational-Oriented Behaviors
• PART III: DEVELOPING AND EVALUATING LEADERSHIP
• 16. Leadership Development
• 17. Evaluating Leadership
• Appendix A Assessment of Organizational Conditions and Leader Performance
• Appendix B General Instructions for the Assessment of Organizational Conditions and Leader Performance
• Appendix C Study of Federal Managers
• Appendix D Study of Local Government Managers
• References
• About the Author