Leadership Model

What is leadership? Leadership is “the behaviour of an individual when he is directing the activities of a group towards a shared goal”. (Hemphill and Coons, 1957, p.7) A leader is interpreted as someone who sets direction in an effort and influences people to follow that direction. How they set that direction and influence people depends on a variety of factors. To really comprehend the “territory” of leadership, one should briefly scan some of the major theories, notice various styles of leadership and review some of the suggested traits and characteristics that leaders should have. There are many leadership theories. Arthur G. Jago (1982) proposed a framework that organizes lea...

Over time, a number of theories of leadership have been proposed. Here are some of the main ideas.

• Great Man Theory

• Trait Theory

• Behavioral Theories

o Role Theory

o The Managerial Grid

• Participative Leadership

o Lewin's leadership styles

o Likert's leadership styles

• Situational Leadership

o Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership

o Vroom and Yetton's Normative Model

o House's Path-Goal Theory of Leadership

• Contingency Theories

o Fiedler's Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) Theory

o Cognitive Resource Theory

o Strategic Contingencies Theory

• Transactional Leadership

o Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory

• Transformational Leadership

o Bass' Transformational Leadership Theory

o Burns' Transformational Leadership Theory

o Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Participation Inventory

See also

Motivation theories, Theories about power

Leadership styles

Disciplines > Leadership > Styles

There are a number of different approaches, or 'styles' to leadership and management that are based on different assumptions and theories. The style that individuals use will be based on a combination of their beliefs, values and preferences, as well as the organizational culture and norms which will encourage some styles and discourage others.

• Charismatic Leadership

• Participative Leadership

• Situational Leadership

• Transactional Leadership

• Transformational Leadership

• The Quiet Leader

• Servant Leadership

Additional research

• The Managerial Grid: Blake and Mouton's people-task balance.

• Lewin's leadership styles: Three original styles.

• Likert's leadership styles: from autocratic to participative.

• Six Emotional Leadership Styles: from 'Mr. Emotional Intelligence', Daniel Goleman and friends.

See also

Beliefs, Culture, Preferences, Values

The Managerial Grid

Disciplines > Leadership > Leadership styles > The Managerial Grid

Description | Discussion | See also

Description

Leaders may be concerned for their people and they also must also have some concern for the work to be done. The question is, how much attention