Leadership Theories
Leadership Theories
Leadership theory developed in three main streams: Trait, Behavioural, and Contingency. This chapter walks through each in turn, including the Great Man variant of Trait Theory, the Iowa Studies and the Tannenbaum and Schmidt continuum from the Behavioural school, and the Contingency move that says effective leadership depends on the situation.
The three streams of leadership research, Bryman’s four phases, the trait list from Stogdill, and the modern revival through Emotional Intelligence
The aristocratic view of leadership as inheritance, and the shift to viewing leadership as learnable observable behaviour
Lewin’s autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire; the Tannenbaum and Schmidt continuum of seven behaviours
Why effective leadership depends on the situation; the three forces in the leader, followers, and context
Side-by-side comparison; both treat leadership as objective content, but differ on whether it is born in or trained in
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