Assessing your leadership traits
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 …
Course: International Leadership: The Evolution of Management and Leadership Theory
10 leadership theories
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 …
The relationship between power and leadership
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. …
Reflection on the course
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 differences between leaders and managers
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 …
The characteristics of leaders and managers
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 …
Leader or manager?
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 …
Skills theory
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 …
Trait theory vs process theory
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 …
Getting the most out of your learning
Learning at Coventry University Coventry University believes that a good student experience is central to learning at a world-class standard. The Coventry Way At Coventry University Online, we’re committed to …
Are leaders born or made?
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: …
Assigned versus emergent leadership
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 …
How do we define leadership?
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 …
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International Leadership: The Evolution of Management and Leadership Theory