NUR 831 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Great Man Theory
Document Summary
Chapter 1 & 2 objecives compare and contrast key leadership theories from the 1900s up to current date by providing key tenets, advantages and limitaions of each theoreical perspecives. Chapter 1: the nature of leadership disinguishing leadership from management. Simply deining just what leadership is, who leaders are, what leaders do, and how leadership is diferent from management. Limited to deine what leadership: lack of a clear and unequivocal understanding. Brief overview of selected theories of leadership: great man theory. One was leader if one was born into the right family- usually a family of nobility and possessed unique characterisics, most of which were inherited. Leaders are born, not made: trait theories. Disinguish leaders from other people and idenify the universal characterisics of leadership. No universal traits among leaders: situaional theories. Clear recogniion to the signiicance of the environment and the paricular situaion as factors in the efeciveness of a leader.
