Description: This comprehensive review examines five major behavior patterns that effective leaders use to influence followers (supportiveness, directiveness, participation, reward/punishment, and charismatic behaviors) and emphasizes how leaders can diagnose and modify situations and followers to make their leadership a more positive and productive endeavor. Part I introduces the concept of leadership, the approach of the book, and descriptions and evaluations of several currently popular situational leadership theories; Part II describes the five major leadership behaviors; and Part III examines current leadership issues in organizations, with a concluding chapter that summarizes the impacts of the leadership behaviors in organizations. Profiles well-known leaders to demonstrate each leader behavior pattern; incorporates findings on personal attributes, skills and sources of power that leaders develop to improve their use of each leader behavior pattern; provides examples of effective and ineffective use of each leader behavior pattern; and includes self-assessments to help readers relate the behaviors to their own life. Offers a unique Internet link for additional reference and support.

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