Product Description

For undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Leadership or Managerial Effectiveness.

This text provides the most comprehensive survey of the major theories and research on leadership and managerial effectiveness in formal organizations with practical suggestions for improving leadership skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #603053 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 508 pages

From the Back Cover

The text that combines theory and practice to provide students with the skills they need for effective organizational leadership.

See why scholars use this best seller as their primary source for finding out about topics in the field of leadership.

Here are some. of the. features to expect in the Fifth Edition:

• New! Incorporated and expanded coverage of topics such as empowerment, team leadership, ethical issues, gender differences in leadership, cross-cultural leadership, and managing diversity.
• Slimmer! Now 15 chapters instead of 19 to include only the most critical concepts and, information without changing the quality of the format.
• Cases at the end of each chapter provide an opportunity to apply the concepts to real events.
• New pedagogical features include chapter learning objectives and key word lists for each chapter.
• A dedicated web site www.prenhall.com/yukl includes Internet resources, online exercises, and author updates.

Customer Reviews

A book well worth buying.
The book sets out to do what many books on leaderships fail at, combine practical advice and academic research. Yukl succeeds in explaining many aspects of modern leadership research, but without making the text too complicated or detailed. This exposé of research is then used to make practical suggestions.

Boring and Hard going
I must say that I do not normally write reviews on all books that I read, but I thought I must alert people about this particular book. No doubt, this book is written thoroughly and in depth. It describes various relevant theories of leadership with a lot of so called empirical research experiments and findings. Many of them are no relevance to MBA studies. Only the plus point is that it includes practical guidelines on different theories, which are relevant and useful. However, the style is so boring, too descriptive and hard-going. In fact, this is the hardest text book that I ever read during my MBA studies. I would suggest Peter Northouse's Leadership Theory and Practice, 4th edition as an alternative book as it is better written and in sufficient depth for MBA level studies.

Well worth the investment
This is an excellent guide to the literature and research on management and leadership.