Synonyms
Attribution Leadership; Online leadership; Authentic leadership; Behavioral leadership theories; Complexity and integrative leadership; Great Man theory; Leadership; Performance-base leadership; Relational-based leadership theories; Situational and contingency leadership theories; Team and participative leadership theories; Traits and skill-based leadership theories
Introduction
The intent of this chapter is to talk about each of the major theories of leadership and discuss how they are related. Over the years, the field has since evolved into an array of leadership theories – with both striking differences as well as interrelationships between the theories.
What is a theory? According to Abraham Kaplan, “A theory is a way of making sense of a disturbing situation so as to allow us most effectively to bring to bear our repertoire of habits, and even more important, to modify habits or discard them altogether, replacing them by new ones as the situation demands” (Kaplan 1964,...
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Swan, W. (2016). Theories of Leadership. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2373-1
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