Cases in Leadership / Edition 2 available in Paperback
Cases in Leadership / Edition 2
- ISBN-10:
- 1412980194
- ISBN-13:
- 9781412980197
- Pub. Date:
- 03/16/2010
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- ISBN-10:
- 1412980194
- ISBN-13:
- 9781412980197
- Pub. Date:
- 03/16/2010
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
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Overview
Key Features: Presents real-world cases related to leadership: Cases illustrate the complex nature of leadership in organizations from around the world. Provides an entire chapter on strategic leadership: This chapter introduces students to a concise description of cutting-edge thinking on strategic leadership. Generates classroom discussion: Cases let students grapple with actual decisions that real-world managers have faced. Offers much more than a collection of cases: W. Glenn Rowe provides summaries of concepts, helpful discussion questions, and readings for each chapter.
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ISBN-13: | 9781412980197 |
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Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Publication date: | 03/16/2010 |
Pages: | 465 |
Product dimensions: | 7.48(w) x 9.16(h) x 0.85(d) |
About the Author
W. Glenn Rowe served in the Canadian Navy for 22 years. While still in the navy, he completed his MBA degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland part-time (1983-1986) and taught on a part-time basis for 2 years (1986-1988) in Memorial’s Faculty of Business Administration. In 1990, he retired from the navy and became a full-time lecturer in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial. In 1992, he began studying leadership within the context of strategic management at Texas A&M University, where he completed his Ph D in 1996. He rejoined the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial in September 1995, where he taught strategic management and strategic leadership. Professor Rowe joined the Ivey Business School on July 1, 2001. He served as the faculty adviser for the Ph D program in general management (including strategy) from January 2002 to July 2009. From July 2009 to June 2012, he served as the director of Ivey’s Executive MBA Program. He currently serves as the coordinator for the General Management Area Group. He has taught strategy and strategic leadership to undergraduate business students, MBAs and EMBAs. He taught a strategy doctoral seminar from 2003 to 2009. In January 2016, he was appointed as the Executive Director, Ivey Publishing where he oversees Ivey’s case publishing operation and the Ivey Business Journal.
Professor Rowe serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several academic journals and is active in the community. He has facilitated strategic-thinking sessions for several organizations including a couple of banks, a fish farming company, and others such as the Alliance for the Control of Tobacco (Newfoundland and Labrador), the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association, Fishery Products International, Gros Morne National Park, and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. He was the coauthor of a strategic management textbook and its associated casebook, both of which went to a their third edition. He is a co-author on a second strategic management textbook having joined the author team for the 9th edition. His research is published in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Management, the Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of Business Ethics and the Journal of Management Inquiry.
Laura Guerrero worked in retail management for 10 years in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. She has an undergraduate degree in economics from The University of Texas at El Paso. Later, she completed an MBA with a concentration on management and organizational studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. In 2009, she graduated with a Ph D in business administration at the Ivey Business School at Western University. In addition to her interest in gender and culture as they relate to leadership, her research has focused on careers of expatriates and immigrants. She was at The University of Texas at El Paso for seven years. Currently she is in the College of Business at the University of Houston – Clear Lake, where she teaches management and human resources
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Ivey Casebook Series Paul W. Beamish vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments x
Leadership-What Is It? 1
Food Terminal (A) 6
AmeriChem, Inc. 14
Are YOU a Leader-Breeder? 23
Leadership Trait Approach 29
LG Group: Developing Tomorrow's Global Leaders 34
Vista-Sci Health Care Inc. 49
Immunity From Implosion: Building Smart Leadership 56
Leadership Skills Approach 63
Office Design Partners (Thailand) Ltd. 69
Consulting for George Lancia 79
Building Leaders at Entry Level: A Leadership Pipeline 82
Leader Style Approach 91
Technosoft Russia 95
Healthcare Equipment Corporation-Managing in Korea 107
The New Infocracies: Implications for Leadership 116
The Situational Approach to Leadership 125
Brookfield Properties: Crisis Leadership Following September 11, 2001 129
Elite, Inc. (A) 145
Making Difficult Decisions in Turbulent Times 149
The Contingency Theory of Leadership 157
A Difficult Hiring Decision at CentralBank 161
Christina Gold Leading Change at Western Union 177
What Engages Employees the Most, or the Ten Cs of Employee Engagement 186
The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership 193
The Bay Kitchener 199
Blinds To Go: Staffing a Retail Expansion 209
Setting Goals: When Performance Doesn't Matter 217
The Leader-Member Exchange Theory of Leadership 223
Caribbean Foods Limited, Trinidad (Revised) 228
Moez Kassam: Consulting Intern 237
Leadership Ltd: White Elephant to Wheelwright 246
Transformational Leadership 251
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Knight of the British Empire 258
Red Cross Children's Home: Building Capabilities in Guyana (C) 261
Drucker's Challenge: Communication and the Emotional Glass Ceiling 263
Team Leadership 271
The 1996 Everest Tragedy 277
Century Park Sheraton Singapore 283
Why Innovation Happens When Happy People Fight 292
Strategic Leadership Natalie Slawinski 297
Vic Young and Fishery Products International (A) 302
Compassion Canada 320
You're an Entrepreneur: But Do You Exercise Strategic Leadership? 331
Women and Leadership Laura Guerrero 335
Anita Jairam at Metropole Services 340
Women in Management at London Life (A) 344
Leveraging Diversity to Maximum Advantage: The Business Case for Appointing More Women to Boards 353
Culture and Leadership Laura Guerrero 359
Salco (China) 363
Intel in China 373
Grupo Financiero Inverlat 380
Global Fatalities: When International Executives Derail 389
Ethical Leadership 395
Laurel Upholstery 402
The Price of Speaking Out Against the Betrayal of Public Trust: Joanna Gualtieri (A) 406
Pembina Pipeline Corporation 409
Ethics or Excellence? Conscience as a Check on the Unbalanced Pursuit of Organizational Goals 413
About the Editor 421