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Leadership is one of the most relevant aspects of the [[organization]]al [[context]]. However, defining leadership has been challenging. The following sections discuss several important aspects of leadership including a description of what leadership is and a description of several popular theories and styles of leadership. This article also discusses topics such as the role of [[emotions]] and [[vision]], as well as leadership effectiveness and performance, leadership in different contexts, how it may differ from related [[concepts]] (i.e., management), and some [[critiques]] of leadership as generally conceived.

Leadership is one of the most relevant aspects of the [[organization]]al [[context]]. However, defining leadership has been challenging. The following sections discuss several important aspects of leadership including a description of what leadership is and a description of several popular theories and styles of leadership. This article also discusses topics such as the role of [[emotions]] and [[vision]], as well as leadership effectiveness and performance, leadership in different contexts, how it may differ from related [[concepts]] (i.e., management), and some [[critiques]] of leadership as generally conceived.

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Leadership''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Leadership this link].</center>

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According to the late Jules Masserman, American [[Psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and former member of the faculty of [http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University medical school], leaders must fulfill three [[functions]]: the leader must provide for the well-being of the led, provide a social organization in which people feel [[relative]]ly secure, and provide a set of [[belief]]s.

According to the late Jules Masserman, American [[Psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and former member of the faculty of [https://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University medical school], leaders must fulfill three [[functions]]: the leader must provide for the well-being of the led, provide a social organization in which people feel [[relative]]ly secure, and provide a set of [[belief]]s.

==Theories of leadership==

==Theories of leadership==

Students of leadership have produced theories involving traits [3], situational interaction, [[function]], [[behavior]], [[power]], [[vision]] and [[values]] [4], [[charisma]], and [[intelligence]] among others.

Students of leadership have produced theories involving traits [3], situational interaction, [[function]], [[behavior]], [[power]], [[vision]] and [[values]] [4], [[charisma]], and [[intelligence]] among others.

*Training: Opportunities for feedback and updating skills are provided and taken advantage of by team members.

*Training: Opportunities for feedback and updating skills are provided and taken advantage of by team members.

==Criticism of the concept of leadership==

==Criticism of the concept of leadership==

[http://www.chomsky.info/ Noam Chomsky] and others have criticized the very [[concept]] of leadership as involving people abrogating their responsibility to [[think]] and will [[actions]] for themselves. While the conventional view of leadership is rather satisfying to people who "want to be told what to do", one should question why they are being subjected to a will or [[intellect]] other than their own if the leader is not a SME.

[https://www.chomsky.info/ Noam Chomsky] and others have criticized the very [[concept]] of leadership as involving people abrogating their responsibility to [[think]] and will [[actions]] for themselves. While the conventional view of leadership is rather satisfying to people who "want to be told what to do", one should question why they are being subjected to a will or [[intellect]] other than their own if the leader is not a SME.

The fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the leadership principle is challenged by the introduction of concepts such as autogestion, employeeship, common civic [[virtue]], etc, which stress individual responsibility and/or group authority in the work place and elsewhere by [[focus]]ing on the skills and [[attitude]]s that a [[person]] needs in general rather than separating out leadership as the basis of a special class of individuals.

The fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the leadership principle is challenged by the introduction of concepts such as autogestion, employeeship, common civic [[virtue]], etc, which stress individual responsibility and/or group authority in the work place and elsewhere by [[focus]]ing on the skills and [[attitude]]s that a [[person]] needs in general rather than separating out leadership as the basis of a special class of individuals.

Similarly various historical calamities are attributed to a misplaced reliance on the principle of leadership.

Similarly various historical calamities are attributed to a misplaced reliance on the principle of leadership.

*Vroom, Victor; Sternberg, Robert J. (2002). "Theoretical Letters: The person versus the situation in leadership". The Leadership Quarterly Vol. 13: 301-323.

*Vroom, Victor; Sternberg, Robert J. (2002). "Theoretical Letters: The person versus the situation in leadership". The Leadership Quarterly Vol. 13: 301-323.

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