Leadership for the Twenty-First Century / Edition 1

by Joseph Rost

Overview

This illuminating study critiques the concept of leadership as understood in the last 75 years and looks to the twenty-first century for a reconstructed understanding of leadership in the postindustrial era. More similarities in past decades were found than had been thought; the thread throughout Rost's book is that leadership was conceived of as good management. He develops a new definition and paradigm for leadership in this volume that distinguishes leadership from management in fundamental ways. The ethics of leadership from a postindustrial perspective completes the paradigm. The book concludes with suggestions that can be immediately utilized in helping to transform our understanding of leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275946104
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/18/1993
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)

About the Author

JOSEPH C. ROST is Professor of Leadership and Administration in the School of Education, University of San Diego. He is the author of a number of articles and papers on leadership, politics, and policy making, and consults with organizations on leadership.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
The Problem with Leadership Studies
An Overview of Leadership Studies
Definitions of Leadership: 1900-1979
Leadership Definitions: The 1980s
The Nature of Leadership
Leadership and Management
Leadership and Ethics in the 1990s
Leadership in the Future
Index