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Book Description
Organizational Leadership examines the concepts, issues, and practices that comprise the core of organizational leadership from a global and interpretive perspective. Underpinning its story with a mixture of description, analysis, and critique, Bratton/Grint/Nelson achieves a distinct point of view by examining leadership through a variety of prisms and by giving competing and globally diverse viewpoints equal shares in the debate. Two components unique to this text are its global outlook and its interactive CD-ROM, which includes interviews with academics and practitioners, self-assessments, and case studies. Companies profiled in the case studies are Ziba Design (Portland Oregon), Pamela Rodgers Chevrolet (Detroit, Michigan), Calgary Police Service, Banff Springs Hotel, the Body Shop and Volvo Cars.
About the Author
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. Keith Grint is a Fellow in Organizational Behavior and University Reader in Organizational Behavior, at Templeton College, Oxford University. His research interests include the practical implications of contemporary management theory; the comparative analysis of managerial innovations; organizational theory; technology; leadership and re-engineering.
He worked in various industries for ten years before becoming an academic. He taught industrial sociology at Brunel University (London) for six years and then came to Oxford. He has published seven books and over 40 articles on topics ranging from business process re-engineering to leadership, Japanization, appraisal schemes, organizational theory, and the sociology of work. His current research, funded by a two-year ESRC Senior Research Fellowship, focuses on leadership. Dr. Debra L. Nelson is The CBA Associates Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington, where she was the recipient of the R.D. Irwin Dissertation Fellowship Award.
Dr. Nelson is the author of over 60 journal articles focusing on organizational stress management, newcomer socialization, and management of technology. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, MIS Quarterly, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and other journals. In addition, she is coauthor of several books, including Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Realities, and Challenges (3rd ed., Southwest Publishing, 2000), and Preventive Stress Management in Organizations (American Psychological Association, 1997).
Dr. Nelson has also served as a consultant to several organizations including AT&T, Aerospatiale Helicopter Corporation, American Fidelity Assurance, State Farm Insurance Companies, and Southwestern Bell. She has presented leadership and preventive stress management seminars in a host of organizations, including Conoco, Oklahoma Gas and Electric, Oklahoma Natural Gas, and Preview Network Systems. She was honored with the Chandler-Frates and Reitz Graduate Teaching Award in 1997, the Regents' Distinguished Teaching Award in l994 and the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award at OSU in l99l. Dr. Nelson also serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Organizational Leadership,John Bratton,Keith Grint,Debra L. Nelson,South-Western College Pub,0324120664,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Industrial management,Leadership,Organizational Behavior,Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior,Organizational theory & behaviour
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