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Fred Fiedler developed one of the first contingency theories of leadership.15 His theory focuses on the importance of context in effective leadership and supports the belief that there is no one best set of leadership traits or behaviours.
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- Sihame Benmira, Moyosolu Agboola
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how leadership theory evolved into the major paradigms presented in this book. We then discuss leadership in special domains and emerging issues relating leadership to culture, gender, ethics, and identity, among others. Finally, we discuss how leadership findings are being integrated into cohesive frameworks (i.e., hybrid approaches).
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Jan 17, 2020 · After a brief introduction on leadership and its definition, the paper mentions the trait theories, summarizes the still predominant behavioral approaches, gives insights about the contingency...
Jan 26, 2022 · Together, our goal is to build a foundation for future research examining the roles of leadership and the global context as antecedents of global leadership effectiveness.
Jan 1, 2018 · The purpose of this chapter is, through introducing theories of motivation and leadership, to show how leaders shape three types of motivation: individual motivation, public service motivation, and organizational collective motivation.
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We adopt one that Vroom and Jago (2007:18) recently proposed in which leadership is “a process of motivating people to work together collaboratively to accomplish great things,” with “great things” defi ned in the minds of the leader and followers.
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All leadership theories draw conclusions about what they see as the defining traits, skills, knowledge, styles and characteristics of leaders, with many seeking to define ‘universal’ attributes of good leadership.