Leadership Research and Theory: A Functional Integration
This historical overview of leadership theory and research with an eye for commonalities provides an opportunity for integration. Early unproductive research focused on personality traits and behaviors. A recognition of the more complex nature of the phenomenon resulted in the development of conting...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Group dynamics 2000-03, Vol.4 (1), p.27-43 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This historical overview of leadership theory and research
with an eye for commonalities provides an opportunity for
integration. Early unproductive research focused on personality
traits and behaviors. A recognition of the more complex nature of
the phenomenon resulted in the development of contingency theories
that examined leader characteristics and behavior in the context of
situational parameters. The 1970s brought an awareness that
perceptions of leaders by followers and others, and perceptions of
followers by leaders, were influenced by cognitive biases arising
from prior expectations and information-processing schema.
Ironically, attention was belatedly drawn to the study of female
leaders, who were often the victim of cognitive biases and negative
assumptions. Recent research has reflected on the role of cultural
differences in leadership processes and has been drawn again into
the search for outstanding leaders with universally effective
characteristics. The article concludes with an integration of
current knowledge in leadership effectiveness. |
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ISSN: | 1089-2699 1930-7802 |
DOI: | 10.1037/1089-2699.4.1.27 |