Leadership

Leadership Theories

Leadership Theories

Introduction

Since ancient times people tried to find an answer to the question of how a set of specific qualities must have a leader to effectively manage subordinates. In ancient times there was a parable of what God has endowed man first three main qualities: talent, will and decency. And then for some unknown reasons, changed his mind and we left each representative of the human race only two qualities. They say that since then, and walk on the Earth: honest and strong-willed, but talentless, talented and decent but weak-willed, strong-willed and talented, but dishonest. Everyone is a leader in the professional work force must possess organizational skills, and developed the will, and impeccable integrity (Adair, 2000).

Leadership is the process of mutual influences that are played between members of a group and his (or her) leadership and contribute to their performance, their motivation and satisfaction. Leadership is a basic and universal human condition, a relationship that involves all throughout its existence. Initially the parents that in exercising the right or wrong direction in life of each child, the drive and put limits on each family, and also teachers, as well as in business, as in churches, in the army, the sports, politics, etc (Bass,1999).

Distributive leadership is the power and authority in this complex process must be distributed appropriately among all actors involved in management. In this sense requires a participative leadership as it should facilitate the participation of all in the process of making decisions and taking actions.

Discussion

Distributive leadership Theory

“Great Leaders plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in (Translated Greek Proverb)”

The term leadership has always been a debatable issue and defined by scholars in several ways. Although there is no general definition of leadership (Lussier & Achua, 2007), however many scholars have defined the term in different ways.

A team that has a distributive leadership is one in which each member is his own leader, the leadership role of a specific activity is Distributive by each member in order to strengthen confidence, interdependence and decision these decisions. This approach minimizes the presence of single leader empowers the leadership role which multiplies collectively achieving results, effectiveness and coordination.

Distributive Leadership is defined as a process of influence multilateral and reciprocal dynamic between people to achieve a common goal that requires the efforts and leadership of each. But why, some conditions on the exercise of Distributive leadership should be valued.

Distributive Leadership is a process that allows everyone to participate fully in their work and even in their personal lives. While supportive of a distributive leadership model in which the traditional division between leaders and followers was broken. The days when the boss decides one is long gone. The leadership has changed in nature, and management models are allowed less and less relevant. Leadership remains to be reinvented.

A common goal that engages the heart and minds of members A collective capital of trust or, more specifically a sense of collective efficacy is a capital cooperation, ...