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The market-leading Leadership: Theory and Practice presents an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with a focus on how theory can inform practice. Author Peter G. Northouse uses a consistent structure for each chapter that... Read Full Overview

In this fully updated Eight Edition of Leadership: Theory and Practice, a new chapter on Followership examines the central role followers play in the leadership process and unpacks the characteristics of both effective and ineffective followers. The new edition... Read Full Overview

2016 Recipient of the McGuffey Longevity Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA)

Translated into 12 different languages and used in 89 countries, this market-leading text successfully combines an academically robust... Read Full Overview

Heartened by the positive response to previous editions of Leadership: Theory and Practice, this Fourth Edition is written with the same objective to bridge the gap between the often simplistic popular approaches to leadership and the more abstract theoretical... Read Full Overview

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Peter G. Northouse, Leadership: Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide, the market-leading text owes its success to the unique way... Read Full Overview

A wide variety of theoretical approaches to leadership is offered in this book, which gives special attention to how each theory can be employed to improve leadership in real-world organizations.

Special features of the chapters include: a discussion of the strengths... Read Full Overview

The Third Edition of this bestselling text reviews and analyzes the foremost leadership theories, giving special attention to how each theoretical approach can be applied in real-world organizations. For anyone seeking to explore how an understanding of leadership theory... Read Full Overview

Praise for the First Edition : 'This book examines the major theories of leadership systematically....Each chapter maintains the clear and easy-to-understand style that makes this book readable and appropriate for courses in a variety of disciplines - Contemporary Psychology... Read Full Overview

Peter Northouse′s Leadership: Theory and Practice is the market-leading survey text for leadership courses across many disciplines, now in its Fifth Edition. His Introduction to Leadership text provides a "how-to" component,... Read Full Overview

A wide variety of theoretical approaches to leadership is offered in this book, which gives special attention to how each theory can be employed to improve leadership in real-world organizations.

Special features of the chapters include: a discussion of the strengths... Read Full Overview