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Leadership Theories and Comparison of Them
2015
The objective of this term project was to distinguish leaders and managers and to compare the concepts of classical leadership and modern leadership. Styles of leadership that are vital for current businesses were investigated; differences in classical and modern management styles were presented, responsibilities of a leader for the concept of modern leadership were identified; and differences between a manager and a leader were introduced.
Leadership theories and styles—A systematic literature review and the narrative synthesis
Human resources management and services, 2024
This paper explores diverse conceptualizations of leadership, emphasizing its profound impact on individuals and organizations. Leadership's influence on followers' daily lives, necessitating adaptation to modern complexities. Various theories offer distinct perspectives: distributed leadership emphasizes shared expertise. While charismatic leadership focuses on vision alignment. Authentic leadership promotes ethical climates, while Emotional Intelligence theory emphasizes emotional competencies. Ethical leadership underscores moral conduct. Five Domains Leadership highlights talent management and strategy execution, while Leadership Transition Theory discusses dynamic changes. Other theories include direct/indirect leadership, entrepreneurial leadership, and leader-member exchange. Participative leadership explores decision-making styles, and situational leadership aligns styles with follower maturity. Trait and behavioral theories focus on inherent traits and learned behaviours. This review underscores leadership's complexity, offering insights into its diverse conceptualizations and practical implications across contexts.
Critical Analysis of Leadership Theories
This paper offers a critical analysis of two leadership theories in relation to a case study. It evaluates the usefulness of different leadership theories to a leader in a specific situation. It also compares and contrasts the leadership theories and creates guidelines based on leadership theories for effective leadership
GRACE NEKO, 2018
An organization constitute of a diverse group of individuals, working together towards a specified common goal. A robust organizational framework is based upon specified values, believes and positive culture accompanied by effective leaders and managers that are expected to understand their roles and responsibilities towards both the employees and the management of the organization. Culture is recognized as "the glue" that binds a group of people together (Martin and Meyerson, 1988). Therefore, organizational culture entails intelligent and great leaders who value and believe in nurturing employees and appreciate their active participation in the progression of the company (Balain & Sparrow 2009). With that said, management is also one of the crucial organisational activities that is necessary to ensure the coordination of individual efforts as well as the organization's resources and activities. Lastly, leadership in itself is a vital bond that connects effective management and splendid organizational culture. However, for a long time, there has been a disconnect and inconsistency on what entails leadership and management. We identify with scholars who questioned the overlying issues regarding the significant concepts of leadership and management (Schedlitzki & Edwards,2014). It is therefore paramount to understand how leadership and management play critical roles in shaping up contemporary organizations, fundamentally appreciating the applicability that arises with the various leadership styles and management theories while apprehending their link to organization culture.
A Literature Review into Leadership Styles Discussed in the Past Five Years
Open Journal of Social Sciences
Leadership is one of the most discussed topics in literature across all different industries and sciences. There is a need for clarification and overview on the different types of leadership discussed in literature. This explorative research describes a systematic literature review to give a general overview of the types of leadership discussed in the literature in the time period between March 2013 and March 2018. In total 658 different types of leadership were mentioned in 380 analyzed articles. Of that transformational leadership was mentioned 200 times, effective leadership was mentioned 118 times, transactional leadership 110 times, participative leadership was mentioned 89 times and ethical leadership was mentioned 72 times. Often these types of leadership were also mentioned together and a great overlap on the different leadership styles was mentioned. Further research on leadership should therefore focus less on explorative research and more on developmental research of a new full range scientific leadership model including the different leadership styles discussed most often in the past five year.
Leaders’ Leadership Theory in a Management Perspective
American Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation, 2023
Leadership is the most important characteristic of a manager. Leadership is a spiritual tool for the better use and organization of human activities, coordination, abilities and characteristics. The manager or leader has leadership resources. The basis of these sources may be formal and possibly informal, which is necessary to understand. There are various institutions in the political, cultural, social and economic spheres of societies; Each of these employees has different characteristics and different qualifications, which need to be studied so that organizations and institutions can develop well. To this end, the ability to lead has been researched by managing science researchers. A manager has different solutions to achieve the goal to solve his problems better and reach the goal on a regular basis. These solutions are the various theories that have been developed by the science researchers. Management science researchers have already clarified the logical approach of any solution or theory for a manager or leader, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages, which makes it much easier for a manager to lead.
Leadership as an effective ingredient in successful management by Mohammed M. Zakaria
Leadership is a process by which one person tries to influence others in the performance of a common task. Through leadership subordinates are imaginatively directed, guided and influenced in choosing and attaining goals. Personal interviews together with supplement questionnaires were administered on two Managers of Carson Products Ltdwho were randomly selected to collect data for the purpose. Data collected were manually handled, analyzed and discussed. Much research has been directed to the leadership phenomenon. Also three broad categories of leadership style exist: autocratic (theory X) democratic (theory Y), and free-rein styles. Managers will use these styles in their effort to emerge as a leader. A manager who is appointed to a position of organizational authority is not generally perceived as a leader at the out set. It is hoped, however, that this person will emerge as a leader of the subordinates, thus becoming a much more effective manager as well. The study revealed that leaders need to have knowledge, capacity, patience and initiative to motivate, communicate, manage conflicts etc, Every organization should therefore set-up human resource department to recruit, develop, motivate and advance people for leadership position.
Leadership: A Theoretical and Empirical Discourse
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE, 2018
Diverse views have emerged on leadership definitions, theories, and classification in academic discourse. The debate and conscious efforts made to clarify leadership actively has generated socio-cultural and organizational research on its styles and behaviours. This study seeks to identify the theoretical views of various academic scholars on some of the main theories that emerged during the 20 th century include: the Thomas Carlyle's Great Man theory, Gordon Allport's Trait theory, Fred Fiedler's Contingency theory, Hersey and Blanchard Situational Theory, Max Weber's Transactional theory, MacGregor Burns' Transformational theory, Robert Houses' Path-goal theory, and Vroom and Yetton's Participative theory. Empirical discourse that revealed findings of academic scholars have enshrined the import of leadership in organizations. Various academic literature that already have been subject to validity and reliability tests were reviewed and used to arrive at the findings. The study postulated the Mystical-man theory after a rich discourse and recommended it as the ideal theory for all Christian leaders to adopt as it is assumed to provide above average performance at all times, irrespective of followership behaviour.
A Critical Perspective of Leadership Theories
Business Ethics and Leadership, 2021
This paper summarizes leadership theories and critically analyzes the different viewpoints on leadership theory in the real corporate world. The main purpose of the study is to examine leadership theories from a critical perspective in a practical context. The systematization of the literature sources and study approaches for solving the problem on a practical perspective toward leadership theories that indicate leadership theories are emerging research topics in the dynamic environment. The relevance of this critical perspective on leadership theories is redesign leadership style based on the current business environment. Investigation of the leadership theories from a critical perspective is conducted in the following logical sequence, such as the introduction, literature review, methodological tools of the research, analysis of each leadership theory, results, discussion, and conclusion of the study. The paper presents the outcome of an empirical analysis on a critical perspective of leadership theories, which showed that leadership theories have not yet been combined. The research empirically confirms that leadership theories prove that the outcome of the study can be a critical tool for future researchers, industry practitioners and other related stakeholders to redesign the leadership style to suit the competitive business environment. The result of the research can be useful to provide significant implications and insights into the leadership theories. A critical analysis of those theories shall enlighten the literature review of leadership theories and redesign leadership style to create a new set of leadership theories since no universal leadership style is accepted in the world. Finally, the leadership style has shifted to another dimension in emotional intelligence due to COVID-19, the global pandemic, creating a new set of attributable skills such as good listening skills, resilience, collaboration, and empathy. COVID-19 has developed a unique leadership style called resilient style.