By: Ehsan Khodarahmi L7

 Theoretical perspectives on leadership, past and present  Leadership behaviour taxonomies and schools  Contingency and situational models of leadership

Was that everything about creating new leaders or just add to the number of followers? One decided for the majority and tend to protect his/her leadership position? Past leaders influenced their followers by their words or by their action? What made the past leaders, the hero of their followers? There was no Higher Education courses in the past about Leadership, but how people named someone as their leader? Leadership in the past was more about mass movement and convincing the followers to do what a leader wants to achieve willingly or otherwise.

1) Great Man theory 2) Trait Theory 3) Behavioural Theory 4) Contingency Theory 5) Situational Theory 6) Participative Theory 7) Management Theory (Transactional) 8) Relationship theory (Transformational) Source: about.com

It is challenging to establish which leadership behaviour categories are relevant and at the same time meaningful. Generally speaking we can analyse and evaluate leadership behaviour taxonomies and schools based on: Task – task-oriented behaviour Relationship – relations-oriented behaviour Leadership is about understanding and showing you care about your subordinates; leadership is not about making unnecessary noise.

If a leader come across as one who is after credit for any success; and it is evident that leader is behind title and or financial motives, he or she will lose trust and credibility of their followers.  Lead a disciplined life  Problem solver  Active listener  Trustworthy  Reliable  Flexible  Humble

The word contingent means a group of people in contact with each other. The theory is proposed by an Austrian psychologist called Fred Edward Fiedler (1922) categorised as follows:  Task-orientated - motivated by the need to complete assigned tasks  People-orientated - motivated by close and supportive relations with their fellow colleagues. According to this theory, the leadership effectiveness of the leader is based on:  Personality  Characteristics of the leadership situation According to situational leadership, there is no single best style of leadership.

Participatory Leadership is based on respect and engagement, it is more about individuals:  Learn from your life as well as the experience of others  Self-awareness  Values and principles  Purpose and motivations  Life balance  Empowering people  Delegate responsibility  Share information and knowledge  Build support team within organisation