An Objective and Scholarly Look at Leadership and Its Practicality
An Objective and Scholarly Look at Leadership and Its Practicality
Kenneth S. Dixon | 2020
Abstract
This book presents the topic of leadership. The presentation of leadership in this book is presented in a certain way as to inform the average person or those aspiring to be leaders or better leaders, but presenting leadership in a practical way to both a popular and scholarly audience, primarily to the popular audience but written in a way that will satisfy the scholarly audience. Also, the aim of this book is to differentiate itself from popular books on leadership by presenting leadership in scholarly format. Objectivity is also a focus of the book as the author attempts to give factual information supported by substantive evidence-based of credible peer reviewed sources, to include scholarly books with authors of credible and faultless repute regarding the subject of leadership. An in-depth look is taken as leadership is introduced. Approaches to leadership, leadership theories, and types of leadership are presented in this book, which are trait approach, skills approach, situational approach, behavioral approach, path-goal theory, leader-member exchange theory, adaptive leadership, authentic leadership, servant leadership, and transformational leadership are presented in this book.