Leadership and management development contributes directly to improving performance and productivity. What makes a good leader or manager, and how can these qualities be assessed, developed and nurtured? This exciting new textbook offers students an academically rigorous yet readable introduction to leadership and management development.
Offering a thoughtful and well-structured approach, Leadership and Management Development blends critical analysis with practical illustrations. It presents ideas in an elegant way with examples to enable the reader to see the practical value of the concepts it explores.
Covering a broad range of core topics, this book is ideal for students on management development courses at any level. Suitable for CIPD-accredited courses, each chapter is led by CIPD professional standards for teaching management development.