Class Resources - MGT 505 - Advanced Management

MGT 505 - Advanced Management and Leadership

"Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character" — Warren Bennis

TOPCAT

TOPCAT is the library's online catalog. An online catalog stores a record for each item a library owns. Search the online catalog to find out what a library has on a given topic, or to locate a work by title, by author, by subject headings or by keyword.

Heading Headings:

Each item in TOPCAT is assigned one or more special terms, or subject headings that define what the item is about. When you search by subject all items sharing the same subject heading are retrieved. Using subject headings can be a very effective way of finding relevant items. Many items can be found on the library on the subject leadership in the call number area HD 57.7. Some useful subject headings are:

NetLibrary

NetLibrary is an Internet-based electronic library collection which provides access to the full text of scholarly, reference, and professional books in digital format. eBooks are digitally reproduced in their entirety, including photographs. From off-campus it is necessary to log-in to the NetLibrary using your user name and password. Once you are in NetLibrary, you may "browse" any title for fifteen minutes. To access e-books, go the library homepage and select Find e-books. Search using any of the subject headings that were used in TOPCAT. Below is a short list of some e-book titles on the topic leadership.

The following journals are not full-text online but are available in the library.

Leader to Leader
Leadership in Action

E-Journals

E-journals are an electronic version of a journal that is found and read on the Web. Electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers provide access to current information on various subjects. Rather than browse individual e-journal titles, researchers can more quickly find information on a particular subject by searching a database. If the journal is an e-journal, there will be a link to the full text of the articles. Below is a select list of e-journals on the subject leadership.

Databases on Management and Leadership

A database is an organized collection of records containing data for a specific purpose that can be searched and retrieved, e.g. TOPCAT is a database of the holdings of the SWITCH libraries, and Business Source Elite is a database of scholarly and popular articles published in the area of business and management.

Business Source Elite Full Text EBSCO: Provides full text for over 1,100 business publications, some back to 1985, and company profiles on over 10,000 companies.

General Business File ASAP Full Text Thomson Gale: Indexes publications on business trends, finance, acquisitions and mergers, international trade, money management, investments, and banking.

Conference Board Research Collection Full Text Conference Board: Research reports on issues in business management and economics. Includes studies of F500 companies in addition to analyses and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.

Corporate ResourceNet Full Text EBSCO: Full text for more than 1,300 magazines and journals of interest to today's company. Contains over 10,000 company profiles.

Academic OneFile Full Text Thomson Gale: Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources covering physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.

Academic Search Elite Full Text EBSCO: Indexes over 3,400 journals including full text for over 2,000. Some publications back to 1985. Multi-disciplinary including the social sciences, humanities, sciences, education, and more.

Infotrac Business Economics & Theory Collection Full Text Thomson Gale: Collection of 150 full-text periodicals covering topics such as economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal theory; monetary theory and financial institutions; business finance; public finance; country studies; and government regulations.

JSTOR Full Text JSTOR: For older articles. Contains back runs of core scholarly journals, some as far back as 1890. Does not include more recent issues.

MasterFILE Premier Full Text EBSCO: Indexes over 2,660 titles including full text for over 1,830. Multidisciplinary.

Oxford Reference Online: Business and Economics Full Text Oxford University Press: Dictionaries covering accounting, economics, finance, and management.

SAGE Premium Publications Online Full Text Sage: Search full text journals in the fields of business, humanities, social science, science, and technology.

Directory of Open Access Journals Full Text Lund University Libraries: Free, full text, scientific and scholarly journal articles on a wide array of subjects.

Highwire Press Full Text Highwire Press: Free, full text, scientific and scholarly journal articles on a wide array of subjects.

PsycARTICLES Full Text EBSCO: Full text of 55 journals published by APA (American Psychological Association), the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Back as far as 1986.

PsycINFO Index only EBSCO: Indexes over 2,000 psychology journals, some as far back as 1887.

Web Sites

Center for Creative Leadership: "The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) offers what no one else can: an exclusive focus on leadership education and research and unparalleled expertise in solving the leadership challenges of individuals and organizations everywhere. We equip clients around the world with the skills and insight to achieve more than they thought possible through creative leadership."
Center for Ethical leadership: "The Center for Ethical Leadership is a non-profit leadership development and training organization. We help people identify their core values, apply those values to important decisions and live their values at home, at work, and in the community."
Center for Innovative Leadership: "The Center for Innovative Leadership is an organization dedicated to the discovery of more effective ways to organize human effort. We desire to find ways of working together that not only produce more value for customers, return better profits for owners and act as more responsible corporate citizens, but also enrich the human spirit of those people whose choose to work in the organization, consultants and products."
Center for Learning and Organizational Change: "Based at Northwestern University, we are members of a multidisciplinary community that looks at business problems and challenges as issues of knowledge and learning."
Center for Public Leadership: "The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government is dedicated to excellence in leadership education and research. It is equally committed to bridging the gap between leadership theory and practice."
CEO Refresher: "The CEO Refresher is brain food for business! Leadership - strategy - leading change - performance - insight - intelligence - mindfulness - interestingness - learning - and learning faster!"
Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership: "The Greenleaf Center is an international, not-for-profit institution headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our goal is to help people understand the principles and practices of servant-leadership; to nurture colleagues and institutions by providing a focal point and opportunities to share thoughts and ideas on servant-leadership; to produce and publish new resources by others on servant-leadership; and to connect servant-leaders in a network of learning."
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: "HBS Working Knowledge is a collection of cutting-edge management information that keeps you at the forefront of today's fast-changing business environment. You will find a wealth of resources and data that reflect the intellectual capital of Harvard Business School as well as insights from industry leaders worldwide."
Inc.com: "To help you learn more about what you can do to improve leadership in your company (both your own and the leadership skills of those around you), we've compiled Inc.com's best resources on the topic."
James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership: Established in 1981, the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership pursues a bold mission: "to foster leadership excellence through scholarship and education, with special attention to advancing the leadership of groups historically underrepresented in public life."
Leader to Leader Institute: "Established in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, the Leader to Leader Institute furthers its mission—to strengthen the leadership of the social sector—by providing social sector leaders with essential leadership wisdom, inspiration and resources to lead for innovation and to build vibrant social sector organizations. It is this essential social sector, in collaboration with its partners in the private and public sectors, that changes lives and builds a society of healthy children, strong families, decent housing, good schools, work that dignifies, all embraced by the diverse, inclusive, cohesive community that cares about all of its people."
LeadersDirect: "The main aim of this website is to promote a new vision of leadership, one that is independent of position and which shows how leadership can be bottom-up as well as top-down. The key point about leadership shown upwards is that it can come to an end once those in charge buy the new idea. This means that it is possible to show leadership without having anything to do with getting things done or managing people. The implication of this point is that leadership must be defined as the successful promotion of a new direction, leaving management the job of getting it done through people."
Leadership Development: "The Human Resources professional has the opportunity to lead and impact the leadership skills of others. Use these sites to further develop leadership skills."
LeadershipNow: "At LeadershipNow, we want to change the way you think about leadership. It is not about position. Leadership is everybody’s business. It is for men, women and children. It is for families, business and communities. It is for you."
Wharton Leadership Center: "The mission of Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management is consequently to 1) stimulate basic research and practical application in the area of leadership and change, 2) foster an understanding of how to develop organizational leadership, and 3) support the leadership development agendas of the Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania."

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