LEADing small business business growth through leadership development
This is one of the first books to fully value and realise the connection between leadership and learning in SMEs. It provides a real-life narrative, encapsulating the development of business people on a leadership programme for SME managers, whilst explaining the key theories, models and techniques...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham
Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd
2015
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This is one of the first books to fully value and realise the connection between leadership and learning in SMEs. It provides a real-life narrative, encapsulating the development of business people on a leadership programme for SME managers, whilst explaining the key theories, models and techniques that underpin the leadership methods and approaches deployed at each stage of the delegate's journey. The book follows three owner/managers over a ten-month period. Each chapter splits into two - an aesthetic narrative on the learning journey and a 'theory sandwich', which draws the reader's attention to the theories, models and debates underpinning the learning at each stage of the delegate's journey. Academics as well as students will benefit from the research-based examination of leadership learning in the SME context, as it will allow them to stand in the shoes of owners or managers. Policy makers and practitioners will also find the narrative both revealing and informative 1. The owner/manager, leadership and business growth -- 2. Why is leadership learning problematic for small business? -- 3. Leadership learning -- 4. Coaching for growth -- 5. Becoming a LEAD delegate and identity development -- 6. Observational learning -- 7. Single, double and triple-loop learning -- 8. Human, social and institutional capitals -- 9. Self-efficacy of leading : theoretical importance of exchanges -- 10. Bird's nest and marbles -- 11. Reflection and reflexivity -- 12. The learning and the changes -- 13. Ambitious implications |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 252 p ill |
| ISBN: | 9781783475490 9781783475506 |