Principles of Business: Leadership
Provides students and researchers with easy-to-understand entries on hundreds of important terms, principles, and concepts allow readers to develop a deeper understanding of the field.
What defines a good leader? What skills are necessary? Principles of Business: Leadership provides readers with the tools to recognize effective, and ineffective, leadership, and build their skill set to develop solid leadership skills of their own. This volume gives valuable insights into team building, time management, delegation, and the ever-elusive innovation.
Leadership is both a fascinating concept and a continual challenge to those whose job it is to be a leader, and it is absolutely vital to the world we live in today and relevant in any type of business. This work includes such topics as "Business, Ethics & Society," "Charismatic Authority," "Conflict Management," and "Managerial Leadership." All entries are arranged in an A to Z order, making it easy to find the topic of interest. Each entry includes an Abstract that provides a brief, concrete introduction to the topic and how the entry is organized, a Presentation of the Topic, including a discussion of applications and issues, a Bibliography of works discussed in the article, and a helpful list of Further Reading. Other topics discussed in Principles of Business: Leadership include:
- Cross-Cultural Relations
- Delegation
- Employee Engagement
- Gender & Management
- Inclusive Leadership
- Management of Human Resources
- Negotiations
- Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy
- Religious Accommodation in the Workplace
- Plus much, much more!
The book's back matter is another valuable resource which includes a detailed Glossary that defines need-to-know vocabulary terms and a Subject Index which organizes the material by subject for easy research.
The Principles of Business series offers students and researchers an easy-to-understand introduction to the major principles of various aspects of business. These new resources will be a helpful tool for students and researchers who are just beginning their studies of business and need a solid foundation of the key terms and elements in the field. A must-have for all high school and undergraduate business and economics programs.
For those looking to elevate their work performance or learn more about effective leadership, this title supplies entries with advice and real-world experiences from business leaders. This is an essential title in the Principles of Business series for those with serious ambitions.