Schools of Management Thought: Managerial Quality and Leadership Styles

This handbook meant for students gives a comprehensive account of various schools of management thought as well as diverse set of leadership styles leading to managerial quality explaining theme in simple logical way with merits and limitations of each school and each style of leadership. The history of Management as a discipline is traced from the 19th century. One broad way of grouping management theories is to group them as classical, neo-classical and modern management theories. Researchers have identified many styles, theories, approaches and models of leadership in their efforts to find out the ideal model. Extensive research carried out lead to identification of several leadership styles like Laissez-faire, autocratic, democratic and participative.