Contemporary Leadership Behaviour: Selected Readings Book

This essential volume presents a varied collection of 53 readings focused on contemporary leadership skills and behaviors. By spanning a wide nursing content, the readings address those current and evolving leadership issues that affect all nursing professionals. Written by acknowledged leaders and drawn from a variety of established journals, the presentation exposes the reader to many innovative perspectives. Readings are divided into sections based on current trends, allowing the reader to focus on groups of related concepts, and to review them using study questions at the end of each section. Each part of the text begins with an introduction, promoting preparation and goal-setting. Discussion questions are found at the end of each section, stimulating critical thinking and encouraging the exchange of ideas. New in this edition: Increased focus on the changing nursing culture; every article is new, with the majority published in 1995 and 1996 -- and two from 1997; coverage of the latest issues and trends in nursing, including caring and transformational leadership, ethical dilemmas of the changing healthcare system, gender socialization and reverse discrimination, patient and collegial advocacy, the dynamics of change and its effect on nurses and the healthcare system, and the situational and behavioral dynamics in the organizational setting.Read More