The first questionnaire you’re going to take is designed to assess your leadership traits. This questionnaire should be filled in by yourself and also by other people who know you …
We are starting our final activity of the week by looking at the major theories that exist about leadership, what it is and how it arises. Watch the video in …
This article will help you to examine your own abilities as a leader. But first, we are going to look at the concept of power and its role in leadership. …
Congratulations on completing this short course on the Evolution of Management and Leadership Theory. We hope you’ve enjoyed the experience. Watch the video where Navami summarises what we’ve looked at …
The concept of management emerged around the 20th century to reduce chaos in an increasingly industrialised society and to make workplace organisation more efficient and effective. The initial system of …
You have just seen how Kotter associated different characteristics to leaders and managers. Lunenburg (2011) looked at leadership and management as different ends of a spectrum, suggesting that a person …
Every leader can be a manager but not every manager can be a leader. Watch the video of Mary, associate director of Zarana company, interacting with her employees. Do you …
The skills theory of leadership follows a leader-centred perspective, similar to the traits theory. However, the difference is that the skills approach puts more emphasis on the skills and abilities …
Early ideas about leadership, described by the Great Man theory, focused on the innate qualities of individuals. In the 1950s, leadership theory focused on the situational interaction of traits, then …
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Welcome to this course on the Evolution of Management and Leadership Theory. It’s great that you can join us. Throughout the next two weeks, you will have the opportunity to: …
Now you have some understanding about the term leadership, let’s see how individuals emerge as leaders. Assigned or emergent? Assigned leaders are people who become leaders by being given a …
A review of studies of leadership research identified that there are almost as many distinct definitions of leadership as there are those who have attempted to describe it (Stogdill 1974 …