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Mutiny and Leadership by Keith Grint 9780192893345
RRP: $238.88Booksplease Price: $229.98Whenever leadership emerges within a group, there will be resistance to that leadership. Discontent may manifest in a number of ways, and action will always be determined by factors such as resource,... -
The Arts of Leadership by Keith Grint 9780199244898
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $105.94Leadership is still much discussed, studied, and sought after, even though we now live in supposedly more democratic times with flatter organizations and empowered employees. But how can we best... -
Mutiny and Leadership Keith Grint 9780198931577
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $77.51Whenever leadership emerges within a group, there will be resistance to that leadership. Discontent may manifest in a number of ways, and action will always be determined by factors such as resource,... -
The Sociology of Work by Keith Grint 9780745650456
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $60.00This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociology of work. The fourth edition has been transformed... -
Leadership: Limits and possibilities Keith Grint 9781350328525
Booksplease Price: $76.97Leadership: Limits and Possibilities offers a critical discussion of leadership that draws upon a wide range of approaches, material and examples to demonstrate the complex and challenging role of... -
Work and Society: A Reader by Keith Grint 9780745622224
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $104.52This book provides a lively and accessible introduction to key new areas in the contemporary study of work. While traditional accounts of work have tended to focus upon male manual workers in... -
Leadership: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Grint
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.65The subject of leadership raises many questions: What is it? How does it differ from management and command? Are leaders born or bred? Who are the leaders? Do we actually need leaders? ... -
The Sociology of Work Keith Grint (Lancaster University) 9780745650449
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $122.07This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociology of work. The fourth edition has been transformed... -
Management: A Sociological Introduction Keith Grint (Lancaster University) 9780745611495
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $36.54This is a lively introduction to management, covering an array of management orthodoxies and demonstrating, through contemporary sociological theory, that many of the old approaches are in need of... -
Leadership: Classical, Contemporary, and Critical Approaches by Keith Grint 9780198781813
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $112.42What is leadership? Are leaders made or born? Are the characteristics and challenges of leadership the same across time and cultures? Do leaders 'pull' or are they 'pushed'? Are leaders driven by... -
Leadership, Management and Command: Rethinking D-Day by Keith Grint 9780230543171
RRP: $155.98Booksplease Price: $148.40The author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained by comparing the competing strategies of each side. Instead he provides an account of the battle through... -
Fuzzy Management: Contemporary Ideas and Practices at Work by Keith Grint 9780198775003
Booksplease Price: $109.94Fuzzy Management is designed for those who find current management orthodoxies inadequate, who are interested in alternative ideas and how they might be applied to management practice, but are not... -
Fuzzy Management: Contemporary Ideas and Practices at Work by Keith Grint 9780198774990
Booksplease Price: $143.87Fuzzy Management is designed for thsoe who find current management orthodoxies inadequate, who are interested in alternative ideas and how they might be applied to management practice, but are not... -
A Cartography of Resistance: Leadership, Management, and Command Prof Keith Grint 9780198921745
Booksplease Price: $78.49Resistance is universal, but why does it occur, and fail or succeed? Resistance is often regarded in traditional management books as a problem to be overcome because it is seen as short-sighted or... -
The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization Keith Grint (Lancaster University) 9780745609256
Booksplease Price: $38.43This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social... -
Work and Society: A Reader Keith Grint (Reader in Organizational Behaviour at the Said Business School and a Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford) 9780745622231
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.13This book provides a lively and accessible introduction to key new areas in the contemporary study of work. While traditional accounts of work have tended to focus upon male manual workers in... -
The Gender-Technology Relation: Contemporary Theory And Research: An Introduction Rosalind Gill 9780748401611
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.86Provides a review of contemporary theory and empirical research into the relationship between feminism and social constructivism. Through case studies, the book focuses on issues raised by different... -
Discovering Leadership by Jon Billsberry 9780230575844
Booksplease Price: $149.18A reader aimed at undergraduate, post-graduate and MBA students taking a module in Leadership, it brings together a collection of 24 highly-cited articles and specially commissioned pieces on... -
The New Public Leadership Challenge by Stephen Brookes 9780230224179
Booksplease Price: $218.63Drawn from the results of five seminars this unique book looks at the four areas of: public sector reform; essential features for public leaders; public leadership in action; and the outline of a... -
The New Public Leadership Challenge by S. Brookes 9781349309122
RRP: $214.48Booksplease Price: $176.59Drawn from the results of five seminars this unique book looks at the four areas of: public sector reform; essential features for public leaders; public leadership in action; and the outline of a... -
Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance: Impact and Practice Alasdair Blair 9781447327028
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $48.34Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates... -
Leadership Across Boundaries: A Passage to Aporia by Nathan Harter
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $91.53Leadership Across Boundaries: A Passage to Aporia theorizes on leadership in an unprecedented manner by stepping outside of conventional leadership theory and importing into leadership studies the... -
Against Management: Organization in the Age of Managerialism by Martin Parker 9780745629254
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $103.94Against Management argues that management is increasingly being seen as a problem, and not a solution. Martin Parker argues that managing is not the only way to organize and that managerialism is a... -
Against Management: Organization in the Age of Managerialism by Martin Parker 9780745629261
Booksplease Price: $38.43Against Management argues that management is increasingly being seen as a problem, and not a solution. Martin Parker argues that managing is not the only way to organize and that managerialism is a... -
The New Sociology of Economic Behaviour by Ralph Fevre 9780761966630
Booksplease Price: $177.57What are the solid achievements of the sociology of economic behaviour? What have been the main failures and omissions? How will the subject develop? In this assured and timely volume, the author... -
Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World Mats Alvesson 9780415568456
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $96.54We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic ill can be mended through better leadership. Sometimes, this commitment to leadership is followed... -
Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism by Mareile Pfannebecker 9781786997272
Booksplease Price: $167.02Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to... -
The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest Mary Jo Hatch (University of Virginia) 9781405122603
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $47.91The Three Faces of Leadership takes readers inside the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with... -
Work and Organizational Behaviour by John Bratton
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $88.98Critical and accessible, the new edition of this bestselling textbook offers valuable insight into contemporary management practices and encourages readers to reflect on the realities of the... -
The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest by Mary Jo Hatch 9781405122597
RRP: $140.38Booksplease Price: $99.24The Three Faces of Leadership takes readers inside the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with... -
A History of Leadership Morgen Witzel (University of Exeter, UK) 9781138062061
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08The evolution of leadership into a widely accepted concept occurred without any shared understanding and acceptance of its meaning and relevance in contemporary society. Why do some people become... -
Debating Bad Leadership: Reasons and Remedies by Anders OErtenblad 9783030650278
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $218.63"This stimulating collection tackles the question that is uppermost in most of humanity's minds and hearts right now. The novel debating approach that is taken generates a rich understanding of... -
Reflexive Leadership: Organising in an imperfect world by Mats Alvesson 9781412961592
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $83.40Making a case for a reflexive approach to leadership, the authors draw upon decades of carrying out in-depth studies of professionals trying to "do" leadership. Through interviews with managers and... -
Constructing Crisis: Leaders, Crises and Claims of Urgency by Bert Spector 9781108427357
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $177.20There is no such thing as a crisis. Rather than an actual, corporeal thing, a crisis is a claim asserted from a position of power and influence, intended to shape the understanding of others. A... -
Leading Contemporary Organizations: Psychodynamic Perspectives on Crisis and Change by Amy Fraher 9781107162266
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $170.14Why do organizations fail? What hinders otherwise responsible leaders from recognizing looming disasters? What prevents well-intentioned people from responding properly to an emerging crisis? Using... -
Myths at Work Harriet Bradley 9780745622712
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.21During the last two decades there have been profound changes in the organization of work. Myths at Work explores these changes, critically examining and challenging some of the central frameworks... -
The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies David Knights 9781032425160
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.56The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies offers a rich and insightful overview of critical leadership studies for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners. The volume draws... -
The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership: A Critical Perspective by Dennis Tourish 9780415564281
Booksplease Price: $87.20Most research into leadership has presented leaders as heroic, charismatic and transformational 'visionaries'. The leader, whether in business, politics or any other field, is the most important... -
Leading Contemporary Organizations: Psychodynamic Perspectives on Crisis and Change by Amy Fraher
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $59.34Why do organizations fail? What hinders otherwise responsible leaders from recognizing looming disasters? What prevents well-intentioned people from responding properly to an emerging crisis? Using... -
Leading Health Care Organisations by Sue Dopson 9781403902702
Booksplease Price: $176.59This book addresses the topic of leadership in healthcare. There is a great deal of rhetoric around leadership but the reality is that there is no 'best way' of leading, this book explores the...