The concept of leadership entails a number of key questions that become fundamental when we take a closer look at the phenomenon.
- 1325
The concept of leadership entails a number of key questions that become fundamental when we take a closer look at the phenomenon.
Today, the authors of publications usually argue that there is no single type of leadership personality. Leaders differ in many ways, and it is hard to name one single criterion that all of them would have in common. It is impossible to identify the most important personality traits of a leader.
After several months, at the end of 1948, Irving Knickerbocker published an article entitled Leadership – A Conception and Some Implications, exploring the circumstances in which groups of people interact and become active in response to established goals.
Two years later, in 1962, George M. Beal, Joe M. Bohlen and John N. Raudabaugh described leadership as exerting influence on others.
In 1966, Dawid Bowers and Stanley Seashore formulated the concept of positive relationships between group members, organisation and coordination.
Popular literature in Polish describes a set of personality traits that make you a leader. Authors such as A. Bieńkowski, T. Woroniecki and J. Paleski continue the research into leadership.
The phenomenon of leadership is connected with the concept of the image of leadership.
What is leader then? For centuries, leaders have been defined as people with specific abilities. According to Andrzej Chodubski, a set of such abilities can be described as a freedom of behaviour, reflected in the given person’s economic and pro-leisure attitude as the key values of social existence.
According to Cecil A. Gibb, a leader is an authority, a person able to gain followers, characterised by prestige and ability to build positive relationships with others.