Business Administration 3323K Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Servant Leadership, Focus Group, Haymarket Media Group
3 Dec 2015
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Some researchers conceptualize leadership as a trait or as a behaviour, whereas others view leadership from an information-processing perspective or relational standpoint. Leadership has been studied using both qualitative and quantitate methods. Trait versus process leadership: the trait perspective suggests that certain individuals have special innate or inborn characteristics or qualities that make them leaders, and that us these qualities that differentiate them from non-leaders. Other traits followers leader leadership (interaction) followers: the process viewpoint suggests that leadership is a phenomenon that resides in the context of the interactions between leaders and followers and makes leadership available to everyone. Assigned versus emergent leadership: leadership that is based on occupying a position in an organization is assigned leadership. Although women were equally in uential leaders in their groups, they were rated signi cantly lower than comparable men were on leadership. Furthermore, these in uential women were also rated as signi cantly less liable than.
