Trends in Leadership

Thought
Prepared by-
Nafisa Afsana Taskia
How would you define leadership?
Definitions: It depends what you mean by
leadership ..
● Influence processes
● Mobilizing resources to arouse, engage, satisfy the motives of followers
● Making sense [of what people are doing] …articulating purpose and
values
KEY STAGES IN LEADERSHIP THOUGHT

1 2 3 4

Transactional The ‘New leadership’

Heroic Leadership Trait based
theories movement
theories
style and situational transformation
approaches leadership; vision,
management of
meaning
NEW LEADERSHIP-
TRANSFORMATIONAL
● Term was coined by Alan Bryman
● Focused on transformational change
● Regarded leaders as providers of vision
● Theory is an interpretative one
Transformational Leadership

Transformational Leadership is a leadership style where one or more persons

engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another
to higher levels of motivation and morality

Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa demonstrated a form of

transformational leadership that was based on values
4 I’s of Transformational Leadership
1. Idealized Influence: Leader serves as an ideal role model for followers and is
admired for this
2. Inspirational Motivation: Transformational leaders have the ability to inspire
and motivate followers
3. Individualized Consideration: Transformational leaders demonstrate genuine
concern for the needs and feelings of followers which brings out the best
efforts from each individual
4. Intellectual Stimulation: Transformational leaders challenges followers to be
innovative and creative
Assumptions of Transformational
Leadership
● The prime assumption is, that people will willingly follow a leader who
inspires them
● The vision and passion of one man can transform his followers and
together they can achieve great things
● Energy and enthusiasm are the tonics that get things done
WHAT’S BEYOND NEW LEADERSHIP?

● New Leadership left a lot of issues unanswered

● These include ‘post-charismatic’ ideas such as 5 th-level leadership;
distributed leadership; and leaderless groups
Post- charismatic ideas (1990s-)

● Fifth-level leaders (Jim Collins) were found to be ‘modest but of fierce

resolve’
● Distributed leadership suggests that a team ‘owns’ different parts of the
leadership process
● Leaderless groups have been proposed as the ‘natural’ condition of
informal social activities
Distributed Leadership Model

● The Slone Distributed Leadership Model (DLM) is based on

■ Sensemaking
■ Relating
■ Visioning
■ Inventing (collaborative designing to realize a shared vision)
● DLM ‘seeks to help each leader discover a personal Change Signature (an
individual approach grounded in personal beliefs)
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