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These notes cover leadership theories, providing examples and areas for further reading. All notes were taken in lectures at Bournemouth University Business and Management final year.

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  • May 27, 2023
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What makes a person a leader?
Grint 2005

The role of managers:
● Controlling
● Directing
● Organising
● Planning

Differences between leaders and managers - Taken from Bratton (2020) based on
hales 1986, kotter 2012 and kouzes and posner
Management - allocating resources, negotiating, handling conflict, liaising with other
managers, produces potential predictability
Leadership - building a team, influencing, encouraging emotion, produces radical
change

Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to
achieve a common goal - Northouse 2019 pg6

Leadership depends on 3 factors:
1. Context
a. External environment factors
b. Strategy
c. Organisational design
2. Followers
a. Attributes
b. Capabilities
c. Relations
d. Cooperation
3. Leader
a. Attributes
b. capabilities
c. power
d. knowledge
Bratton 2020

Trait Approach
19th & 20th century - great man approach - leaders are born not made
By the 1930s moved away form this to identifying traits that differentiated leaders from
non-leaders but there were no conclusive findings.
Stogdill, 1974 - analysis of previous leadership theories

, Stogdill Trait Theory
● 1948
○ Intelligence
○ Alterness
○ Insight
○ Initiative
○ Sociability
○ Persistence
○ Self-confidence

Further trait studies
Mann 1959 - 1400 studies of leadership and personality
● Intelligence
● Masculinity
● Adjustment
● Dominance
● Extraversion
● Conservatism

The big 5 personality traits
1. Agreeableness
2. Extraversion
3. Neuroticism
4. Openness
5. Conscientiousness

Skills Approach
Shift towards skills rather than personality traits i.e. leadership can be learned or
developed rather than being innate
Katz 1955 - effective leadership based on 3 basic skills:
1. Technical -
2. Human - knowledge and ability to work with people
3. Conceptual - work with ideas and concepts

Leadership power and influence

Perception influences behaviour more than reality.

How can power be viewed? - Bolden et al. 2011
● Power as a personal attribute
● Power as legitimised by followers

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