Institute of Commercial Management | Qualification Subject

Foundations of Leadership

Main Topics of Study

Classical Leadership

The republic
The art of war
The prince
The treatise on general sociology

Traditional Leadership

The nature of leadership
Leadership, membership and organisation
Situational control and a dynamic theory of leadership

Modern Leadership

A definition and illustration of democratic leadership
Top management styles in Europe
Shatter the glass ceiling
Sexual static

Mythical Leadership

The gentleman and the hero: Wellington and Napoleon
The leadership mystique
Leadership: an alternating social myth

Alternative Leadership

Organising, leadership and skilful process
Correspondents’ images of Martin Luther King, Jr: an interpretive theory of movement leadership
Voicing seduction to silence leadership

Recommended Reading

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Leadership: Classical, Contemporary and Critical Approaches, K Grint, Oxford University Press, 1997

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