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- INTRODUCTION
- Situational era: contingent and situational theories (1960s)
- New leadership era: transactional, transformational theories (1990s) and others (2000s)
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Leadership is one of the most complex and multi-dimensional phenomena. It has been studied exten-sively over the years and has taken on greater importance than ever before in today’s fast- paced and increasingly globalised world. Nonetheless, leadership continues to generate captivating and confusing debate due to the complexity of the subject. Ben...
It was later recognised that the environment plays a significant role in the leader- follower dynamic and this belief dominated the situational era.14 As the name suggests, the situational era is focused on leadership in particular situations, rather than on the traits or behaviours of leaders. This implies that leaders must be able to assess the c...
For the first time, it was recognised that focusing on one aspect or dimension of leadership cannot address all the complexity of the phenomenon.16 In a world that has become more complex and challenging, a need emerged for leadership theories that support circumstances of rapid change, disruptive technological innova-tion and increasing globalisat...
Leadership theory is a dynamic phenomenon and continues to change over time. It has been studied extensively over the years and several theories have emerged (table 1). Traditional lead-ership theories include the Great Man theory, which maintains that leaders are born to lead thus possessing certain inherent
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 born leaders and identifying the traits of the effective leader. Behavioural leadership then followed and focused on the actions of a leader. The situational ...
Hospital trusts in the UK are large, complex, and mature organisations within the National Health Service (NHS) with established structures and processes. Traditional leadership theory tells us that transactional leadership is ideal in this situation for keeping an established organisation on track, maintaining the status quo and ensuring the execu...
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The trait approach is concerned with what traits leaders exhibit and who has these traits. It is an approach that focuses exclusively on the leader, not on the followers or the situation. From the multitude of studies conducted through the years on personal characteristics, it is clear that many traits do contribute to leadership. Some of the ...
categories of leadership traits they outlined as important leadership attri-butes (see Table 2.1). Table 2.1 provides a summary of the traits and characteristics that were identified by researchers from the trait approach. It illustrates clearly the breadth of traits related to leadership. Table 2.1 also shows how difficult it
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These lists of traits typically included characteristics such as selfconfidence, intelligence, ambition, perseverance, assertiveness, emotional stability, creativity, and motivation. The lists, however, were not exhaustive and typically omitted some important leadership attributes. Today, many popular books on leadership continue the tradition ...
history of leadership trait theory). This was the first major crisis reorientation of leadership research, and it took almost 30 years for this line of research to reemerge. The impetus for the re-emergence of leadership trait theory came from a reanalysis of Mann’s data using a relatively new and innovative analytic procedure at the time—
Jan 1, 2018 · Finally, Kinicki suggests that there are two useful features of trait theory, as it is currently studied, including using assessments of traits and personality when picking managers, as well as building programs of management training which presumably would emphasize how one might develop leadership traits (Kinicki and Fugate, p. 367).
