Trait era: Great Man theory (1840s) and trait theories (1930s–1940s) In the 19th century, research on leadership was focused on the innate characteristics of a leader9 10 and on identifying the personality traits and other qualities of effective leaders.11. The core belief of the Great Man theory is that leaders are born, not made or trained.
leadership of the study of leadership: A review of The Leadership Quarterly’s second decade, 2000 –2009”, The Leadership Quarterly, 21 (2010), 922 – 958 . 38
In the 19th century, research on leadership was focused on the innate characteristics of a leader9 10 and on identifying the personality traits and other ... The present paper explores the historical evolution of leadership theory, which includes four main eras: trait, behavioural, situational and new leadership. The focus was initially on natural
From examining 37 leadership supporting theories, and 120 leadership styles, themes relating to the nature of Leadership emerged from the analysis, such as "cognitive" or "behavioral ...
A review of the human and nonhuman leadership literatures suggests at least five major transitions in the evolution of human leadership: (1) leadership emerged in pre-human species as a mechanism to solve simple group coordination problems where any individual initiated an action and others followed 13, 18; (2) leadership was co-opted to foster ...
tive order in the development of leadership theory. Each new era represents a higher state of development in leadership thought process than the preceding era. The major leadership eras and periods are presented in Table 1 along with examples of particular theories. While the empirical validity of several theories is dis-
ethical leadership, and leadership affect and emotions. This study thus identifies the knowledge essentials of leadership research and profiles the most influential journals, publications and scholars and their relationships in this field. The results of this study also provide a useful tool for researchers to access the literature of ...
Evolution of Leadership Theories 4 Purpose of Study Over the years, leadership has been studied extensively in various contexts and theoretical foundations. In some cases, leadership has been described as a process, but most theories and research on leadership look at a person to gain understanding (Homer, 1997).
Complementing prior quantitative and qualitative reviews of the leadership literature, we conduct a bibliometric analysis of leadership articles. Our bibliometric review provides a different perspective by portraying the landscape and developmental trajectory of leadership research over time via co-citation and co-occurrence analyses. Using a scientific visualization tool CiteSpace and 6528 ...
The Michigan Research Team which investigated that employee oriented behaviour was associated with high productivity and high job satisfaction while production orientated behaviour was associated with low productivity and with low satisfaction in subordinates (Ashleigh &Mansi, 2012). 2.1.3 Situational Approaches to Leadership An additional ...
The notion of ‘shared leadership’ has become increasingly popular in recent literature, described in a variety of approaches including cooperative, distributed, and teacher leadership This theory assumes that leaders will motivate subordinates if they satisfy subordinates’ needs on condition of good performance, and if they provide 23 ...
The Evolution of Leadership Theories The world is constantly changing, and so is the development of leadership theories. Leadership is a multidimensional subject, and numerous factors determine ...
THE EVOLUTION OF LEADERSHIP THEORY Ralph M. Stogdill, Ohio State University ABSTRACT The earliest writers on leadership belonged to two major schools. The environmentalists ... Prior to World War II, most of leadership research was concerned with the traits of leaders. Following the war, two major lines of research were Initiated. One was
It is perhaps not surprising that the proliferation of leadership research, combined with the lack of agreed best approaches to researching and understanding leadership in general or in healthcare specifically has resulted in fragmentation of approaches to leadership. ... Leadership Development: Current and Emerging Models and Practices ...
The role of leadership in solving both coordination and collective action problems involving varying degrees of conflict allows us to speculate about the scale and importance of leadership in human evolution. First, research into the fundamental principles behind leadership and followership can be used to craft effective leadership practices.
permeates the evolution of leadership theories begi nning with one of the oldest, in terms of formal theoretical treatment, the so-called “Great Man Theory”, and then on to “trait theory ...
Early Leadership Research: In the early 20th century, leadership research focused on the “trait approach.” This approach suggested that leaders possess a set of innate characteristics that ...
