The best-selling author of textbooks such as Management and Organizational Theory and Design introduces a new textbook Leadership: Theory and Practice. Maintaining his trademark tradition of readability, Daft has produced a stimulating and relevant text packed with interesting examples of real-world leadership. Examples from the military, education, business, and not-for-profit organisations will add appeal to a variety of students and markets with applications ranging from schools of education to corporate leadership programmes. Features: * By integrating real-world leadership with academic research, this text is both interesting and informative. * "Leadership Spotlights" and "Living Leadership" excerpts present a variety of examples that are both contemporary and inspiring. * "Leadership Bookshelf" sections integrate recent writings that cover information pertinent to today's leaders. * End-of-chapter leadership feedback questionnaires provide a forum for students to review material and then apply it to their own lives. * Cutting Edge boxes offer examples of leaders and organizations on the cutting edge of leadership. * Examples from the military, education, business, and not-for-profit organisations add appeal for a variety of students and markets.
Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor of Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University where he specializes in the study of leadership and organization theory. Dr. Daft is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Journal of Management Education. He was the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science and associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly.
Dr. Daft has authored or co-authored 13 books, including ORGANIZATION THEORY AND DESIGN and MANAGEMENT. He has also authored dozens of scholarly articles, papers, and chapters and has published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Accounting Organizations and Society, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and Organizational Behavior Teaching Review. Dr. Daft has received several government research grants in organization design, organizational innovation and change, strategy implementation, and organizational information processing.
An active teacher and respected consultant, Dr. Daft has served as associate dean and helped manage a start-up enterprise. He has been involved in management development and consulting for numerous organizations, including the American Banking Association, AutoZone, Nortel, Bridgestone, TVA, Pratt & Whitney, Allstate Insurance, State Farm Insurance, the United States Air Force, the U.S. Army, J. C. Bradford & Co., Central Parking System, USAA, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and many others.
