Main topics of study:

The Nature of Leadership:

• Definitions of Leadership
• Leadership Effectiveness
• Major Research Approaches
• Conceptualising Leadership
• Comparing Leadership Theories

Nature of Managerial Work:

• Activity Patterns of Managerial Work
• Content of Managerial Work
• Theory of Demands, Constraints, Choices
• Research on Situational Determinants
• The Changing Nature of Managerial Work
• Managerial Discretion
• Descriptive Research
• Application for Managers

Perspectives on Effective Leadership Behaviour:

• Ohio State Leadership Studies
• Michigan Leadership Studies
• Limitations of Survey Research
• Experiments on Task & Relations Behaviour
• Research using Critical Incidents
• High-High Leader
• Leadership Behaviour Taxonomies
• Specific Task Behaviours
• Specific Relations Behaviours
• Evaluating the Behaviour Approach

Participative Leadership, Delegation & Empowerment:

• Nature of Participative Leadership
• Consequences of Participation
• Research on Effects of Participative Leadership
• Normative Decision Model
• Guidelines for Participative Research
• Delegation
• Guidelines for Delegating
• Empowerment

Dyadic Role-Making Theories:

• Leader-Member Exchange Theory
• Leader Attributions about Subordinates
• Follower Attributions & Implicit Theories
• Follower Contributions to Effective Leadership
• Self-Management
• Integrating Leader & Follower Roles

Power & Influence:

• Conceptions of Power & Authority
• Power Types & Sources
• Acquiring & Losing Power
• Consequences of Position & Personal Power
• Types of Influence Behaviour
• Power & Influence Behaviour
• Research on Influence Tactics

Managerial Traits & Skills:

• Nature of Traits & Skills
• Early Research on Leader Traits & Skills
• Major Research Programmes of Research on Leader Traits
• Managerial Traits & Effectiveness
• Managerial Skills & Effectiveness
• Other Relevant Competencies
• Situational Relevance of Skills
• Evaluation of Trait Research
• Application Guidelines

Contingency Theories of Effective Leadership:

• LPC Contingency Model
• Path-Goal Theory of Leadership
• Leadership Substitutes Theory
• The Multiple-Linkage Model
• Cognitive Resources Theory
• Evaluation of Contingency Theories
• Application Guidelines

Charismatic & Transformational Leadership:

• Early Theories
• Attribution Theory of Charismatic Leadership
• Self-concept Theory of Charismatic Leadership
• Other Conceptions of Charisma; Consequences of Charismatic Leadership
• Transformational Leadership
• Research on Theories; Transformational Versus Charismatic Leadership
• Evaluation of Theories
• Guidelines for Transformational Leadership

Leading Change in Organisations:

• Change Processes
• Different Types of Organisational Change
• Influencing Organisational Culture
• Developing a Vision
• Implementing Change
• Increasing Innovation & Learning

Leadership in Teams & Decision Groups:

• Nature of Teams
• Functional Teams
• Cross-Functional Teams
• Self-Managed Work Teams
• Self-Defining Teams
• Virtual Teams
• Procedures for Facilitating Team Learning
• Guidelines for Team Building
• Decision Making in Groups
• Leadership Functions in Meetings
• Guidelines for Leading Meetings

Strategic Leadership:

• Constraints on Executive Discretion
• Attributions about Chief Executives
• Research on Effects of Leadership Succession
• Evolutionary Change & Strategic Leadership
• Political Power & Strategic Leadership
• Executive Tenure & Strategic Leadership
• Executive Teams
• Competing Values in Strategic Leadership
• Monitoring the Environment
• Formulating Strategy

Developing Leadership Skills:

• Leadership Training Programmes
• Designing Effective Training
• Techniques for Leadership Training
• Learning from Experience
• Developmental Activities
• Self-Help Activities
• Facilitating Conditions for Leadership Development
• Systems Perspective on Leadership Development

Ethical Leadership & Diversity:

• Ethical Leadership
• Gender & Leadership
• Leadership in Different Cultures
• Managing Diversity

Reading List

Core Text:
Leadership in Organisations – Gary Yukl (Prentice Hall)

Supplementary Reading:
Not Bosses But Leaders – John Adair (Talbot Adair)
On Becoming a Leader – Warren Bennis (Century)
The Leadership Factor – J Kotter (Free Press)
Leadership – J M Burns (Harper & Row)
Leading Minds – H Gardner (Harper Collins)
Leading Change – J Kotter (Harvard Business School Press)
Making it Happen, Reflections on Leadership – John Harvey-Jones (Fontana)
Super leadership – C Manz & H Sims (Prentice Hall)

Leadership Theories

Practical Leadership
Developing Leaders – John Adair(Talbot Adair)
Management Teams, Why They Succeed or Fail – R Meredith Belbin (Heinemann)
The Wisdom of Teams – Jon Katzenbach & Douglas Smith (Harvard Business School)
Understanding Motivation – John Adair (Talbot Adair)
Games People Play – Eric Berne (Penguin)

Leadership & Change
Intelligent Leadership: Creating a Passion for Change – Alan Hooper & J Potter (Random House)
The Coming Shape of Organisations – R Meredith Belbin (Butterworth Heinemann)
Rethinking Organisation: New Directions in Organisation Theory & Analysis – M Reed & M Hughes (Sage)
Managing Today & Tomorrow – R Stewart (Macmillan)
The Future of Leadership – R P White, P Hodgson & C Crainer (Pitman)
Beyond Certainty – Charles Handy (Arrow Business Books)
The Fifth Discipline – P Senge (Doubleday/Currency)
Competing for the Future – G Hamel & CK Prahalad (Harvard Business School Press)