Dr Marian Iszatt-White is a Senior Lecturer in the area of leadership at the School of Management, Lancaster University. Marian formerly held the position of Group Treasurer of top 100 plc Enterprise Oil, and also developed a freelance training and consultancy business.Chris is the Associate Dean for Postgraduate Education at Lancaster University Management School. He has over 20 years' experience in the design and direction of leadership development programmes for a range of different organisations. Most recently Chris has been Director of Lancaster's Executive MBA programme, taught in the UK, Ghana, and Malaysia. He has previously been Director of the Full time MBA programme.

This book makes an excellent contribution to the leadership field. It encourages a critical, but also reflective look at leadership practice. The new edition restructures and revises the key debates and introduces new examples that contextualise the theoretical discussion...An invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students wanting to explore the importance of leadership within, and of, organizations.

• Part 1 - Defining the terrain 1: Why study leadership 2: Leadership, management and strategy 3: Leadership, power and influence 4: Critical approachesPart 2 - Essentialist approaches 5: Born versus made 6: Transformational & charismatic 7: Leading teams and leading change 8: Authentic leadershipPart 3 - Relational approaches 9: Leaders and leading 10: Social construction of leadership 11: Leadership as practice 12: Responsible leadership for a sustainable world 13: FollowershipPart 4 - Developing leaders: developing as a leader 14: Leadership development 15: Leadership identities

Dr Marian Iszatt-White is a Senior Lecturer in the area of leadership at the School of Management, Lancaster University. Marian formerly held the position of Group Treasurer of top 100 plc Enterprise Oil, and also developed a freelance training and consultancy business.Chris is the Associate Dean for Postgraduate Education at Lancaster University Management School. He has over 20 years' experience in the design and direction of leadership development programmes for a range of different organisations. Most recently Chris has been Director of Lancaster's Executive MBA programme, taught in the UK, Ghana, and Malaysia. He has previously been Director of the Full time MBA programme.

This book makes an excellent contribution to the leadership field. It encourages a critical, but also reflective look at leadership practice. The new edition restructures and revises the key debates and introduces new examples that contextualise the theoretical discussion...An invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students wanting to explore the importance of leadership within, and of, organizations.

• Part 1 - Defining the terrain 1: Why study leadership 2: Leadership, management and strategy 3: Leadership, power and influence 4: Critical approachesPart 2 - Essentialist approaches 5: Born versus made 6: Transformational & charismatic 7: Leading teams and leading change 8: Authentic leadershipPart 3 - Relational approaches 9: Leaders and leading 10: Social construction of leadership 11: Leadership as practice 12: Responsible leadership for a sustainable world 13: FollowershipPart 4 - Developing leaders: developing as a leader 14: Leadership development 15: Leadership identities