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Leadership

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  • Business Source Complete

    Business Source Complete provides full text for over 10,000 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,150 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business, including leadership.  Access to journals such as Leader to Leader, Leadership in Education, Leadership Quarterly, Leadership in Action and more is available through Business Source Complete. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922 and is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

  • JSTOR

    Provides access to full-text, full-image, scholarly literature in a variety of academic disciplines. JSTOR offers the scanned image of each journal page as it was originally designed, printed, and illustrated.  There is a five-year embargo on some publications, however, meaning the most recent journal volumes may not be available.

    Also of value for Leadership students is the JSTOR Business collection, which includes core titles in economics and finance, including accounting, labor relations, marketing, management, operations research, and risk assessment.

  • ProQuest

    ProQuest is a multidisciplinary databases that provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including: leadership, business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.  Access journals such as Leader to Leader, Leadership, Leadership in Action, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Strategy and Leadership, Journal of Workplace Learning, Learning Organization and more through this database.  An ideal starting place for research in leadership, ProQuest has coverage from 1971 onward.

  • Sage Journals Online - Sage Full-Text Collections

    The SAGE Full-Text Collections are discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in various fields, published by SAGE Publications and participating societies. Includes abstracts and table of contents of all Sage published journals. Also provides full text access to subscribed titles such as Small Group Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and more.  Choose a subject area to research from the list provided (such as sociology, psychology or education) and view individual journal titles or search them all at once.  Quick and advanced search both available.

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Encyclopedias

  • The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management

    Bringing together specially-commissioned and carefully edited entries from an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers, the work is divided into 12 individual subject volumes and an index. All of the volumes provide clear, concise, expert definitions and explanations of the key concepts in each area. With entries ranging from extended explorations of major topics, to short definitions of key terms, each dictionary volume has been carefully designed to give both the expert and the newcomer a multi-level guide and reference source to the subject.

  • Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration

    This two-volume encyclopedia edited by English is aimed primarily at school administrators and those in training to lead in the academic arena. Its 600 A-to-Z entries, each half a page to 12 pages long, are by 200-plus professors, graduate students, practitioners, and association officials and range from biographical sketches of leaders and thinkers who have influenced American education, such as Howard Gardner and Abraham Maslow, to explanations of the item response theory and Holocaust education. Other topics include educational organizations (e.g., Parent Teacher Association), child development theories, and terms like "cultural capital" and "differentiated staffing." While matters such as asbestos and school violence are tackled, many of the entries focus on fiscally effective leadership (e.g., "Finance, of public schools"), leadership characteristics (e.g., "Charisma, of leaders"), and the history and theory of leadership - Evelyn Beck, Library Journal

  • Encyclopedia of Leadership

    This set brings together "what truly matters about leadership" to map an emerging discipline that draws from history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science, and psychology. It seeks to answer questions such as what is leadership? What is a great leader? What is a great follower? What are the types of leadership? And how does someone become a leader? The four volumes contain 373 entries of 1,000-6,000 words each, 150 photos, 300 sidebars from primary and secondary sources, and four appendixes. Entries are arranged alphabetically, but the "Reader's Guide" in the front matter organizes them into 19 broad categories, such as "Biographies," "Followership," "Leadership Styles," "Religion." and "Women and Gender."

  • Encyclopedia of Management (ebook)

    Covers numerous topics in management theories and applications, such as aggregate planning, benchmarking, logistics, diversification strategy, non-traditional work arrangements, performance measurement, productivity measures, supply chain management, and much more.

  • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

    This entirely new second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences highlights the growing influence of economics and sociology in social science research. The set also covers the disciplines of political science, anthropology, and psychology, offering current perspectives on a wide variety of topics of global relevance, including: achievement testing; censorship; personality measurement; aging; income distribution; political and economic aspects of foreign aid; food security and consumption patterns; comparative healthcare systems; agricultural innovation; political correctness; discrimination; legislation of ethics and morality; terrorism; free trade; and currency devaluation/revaluation.  The Encyclopedia features compelling biographical entries profiling past and contemporary contributors to the study of the social sciences, while summarizing the critical responses to their work.  In addition, many articles explore specific social movements and important events.

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Handbooks

  • 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook (ebook)

    21st Century Management provides an authoritative insight into the key issues for students in college or on corporate courses with a particular emphasis on the current structure of the topic in the literature, key threads of discussion and research on the topic as well as emerging trends. Throughout, the book looks at topics through the prisms of globalization and new information technologies, so issues such as remote leadership are explained. Ethical and ecological approaches to topics such as entrepreneurship reflect cutting-edge interest.

  • Jossey Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management

    The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management offers a comprehensive and in-depth description of the most effective leadership and management practices that can be applied throughout a nonprofit organization. This second edition of the best-selling handbook brings together the leading experts in the nonprofit field to discuss the current knowledge and trends of effective practice in all phases of nonprofit organization leadership and management. This thoroughly revised edition is based on the most up-to-date research, theory, and experience. It offers practical advice on every aspect of managing nonprofit organizations, including board development, strategic planning, lobbying, marketing, government contracting, volunteer programs, fund-raising, financial accounting, compensation and benefits programs, and risk management.  In addition, this new edition examines emerging topics of interest such as strategic alliances and finding and keeping the right employees.

  • Leadership in NonProfit Organizations: A Reference Handbook

    Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: A Reference Handbook engages voices on issues and leadership topics important to those seeking to understand more about this dynamic sector of society. A major focus of this two-volume reference work is on the specific roles and skills required of the nonprofit leader in voluntary organizations. This work presents contributions from a wide range of authors who reflect the variety, vibrancy, and creativity of the sector itself, provides an overview of the history of nonprofit organizations in the United States, describes a robust and diverse assortment of organizations and opportunities for leadership, and explores the nature of leadership and its complexity as exemplified in the nonprofit sector. It oncludes topics such as personalities of nonprofit leaders; vision and starting a nonprofit organization; nonprofit law, statutes, taxation, and regulations; strategic management; financial management; collaboration; public relations for promoting a nonprofit organization; and human resource policies and procedures.

  • Student Leadership Practices Inventory Kit

    THE STUDENT LEADERSHIP PRACTICES INVENTORY (Student LPI) is the only leadership tool designed specifically for students and young people. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the second edition of this celebrated instrument package approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360° leadership assessment tool helps students and young people measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner’s acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership® model to real-life challenges.  Contents include a facilitator's guide, observer inventory form, self inventory form, student workbook, best practices for exemplary work and scoring software.

  • The SAGE Handbook of Leadership

    Leadership pervades every aspect of organizational and social life, and its study has never been more diverse, nor more fertile. With contributions from those who have defined that territory, this volume is not only a key point of reference for researchers, students and practitioners, but also an agenda-setting prospective and retrospective look at the state of leadership in the twenty-first century. It evaluates the domain and stretches it further by considering leadership scholarship from every angle, concluding with an optimistic look at the future of leaders, followers and their place in organizations and society at large.

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Manuals

  • Pfeiffer's Classic Activities for Developing Leaders

    Good training builds good leaders, and there is no more powerful form of training than experiential learning. Pfeiffer's Classic Activities for Developing Leaders is a hands-on resource that offers twenty experiential learning activities, complete and ready to use in training sessions. These proven activities are designed to teach a wide variety of leadership skills to executives, managers, and supervisors. The book also includes questionnaires and surveys that measure everything from the leadership behaviors of individual trainees to organizational factors that influence or determine the way leadership will be exercised. Finally, the book contains insightful and informative articles that lay the educational foundation for the study of leadership as a teachable skill.

  • The Leadership Manual

    The Leadership Manual is the first practical reference guide for busy people that addresses finding your authentic leadership style and how you express this at work. It is for anyone wanting to develop their own leadership potential, including professionals, managers and entrepreneurs. It provides fast, practical information with suggestions, ideas and steps to encourage you to use your leadership ability in every situation you face.

  • The Student Leadership Guide

    Experts Academy Press is proud to present the first and only leadership book on the market that is (1) intended for students, (2) written from both theoretical and popular viewpoints, and (3) structured with a real-world, service-oriented framework that students can instantly use to make a difference in their classrooms, communities, and early careers. Leadership is conceptualized from the principles that it is a collective and participative process, different from management, and firmly rooted in service. The book's framework--Envision, Enlist, Embody, Empower, Evaluate, and Encourage--reflects six key leadership practices students must learn in order to lead with competence and confidence. The Student Leadership Guide has been praised by educators and students alike for its theory-backed content and its practical, inspiring call to action and service.

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Web Sites

  • Center for Women's Global Leadership

    The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.

  • Institute for Women in Leadership (iWIL)

    Brescia's Institute for Women in Leadership is committed to the development of authentic leaders. iWIL promotes leadership that cultivates: social responsibility, collaborative action and sustainability. iWIL also encourages participants to: recognize their leadership potential, and to develop their abilities to coach, mentor, and inspire others based on effective leadership principles.

  • Women in Leadership Foundation
    The Women In Leadership Foundation (WIL) creates inspirational programs that bring women together to collaborate in the development of their leadership skills and creates positive change in the future of women’s leadership in Canada.
  • Women in the Lead: Inspiration Blog
    This website's focus is on leadership, personal and professional development (with the idea that people who are thinking, questioning, exploring, learning and spending meaningful time together, will be more effective leaders of organizations, communities and of their families), as well as catalysts for creating a healthier, sustainable and mutualistic world.
  • Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
    This site provides historical as well as up-to-date information on women leaders in government across the world.
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