Historical Perspective

March 1, 2014

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Over time, a number of theories of leadership have been proposed. Here are some of the main ideas in a positive timeline.

Theories of Leadership

Over time, a number of theories of leadership have been proposed. Here are some of the main ideas in a positive timeline.

• Great Man Theory (1840s)
• Trait Theory (1930s-1940s)
• Behavioral Theories (1940s-1950s)
  • Role Theory
  • The Managerial Grid
• Participative Leadership
  • Lewin’s leadership styles
  • Likert’s leadership styles
• Situational Leadership
  • Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership
  • Vroom and Yetton’s Normative Model
  • House’s Path-Goal Theory of Leadership
• Contingency Theories (1960s)
  • Fiedler’s Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) Theory
  • Cognitive Resource Theory
  • Strategic Contingencies Theory
• Transactional Leadership (1970s)
  • Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory
• Transformational Leadership (1970s)
  • Bass’ Transformational Leadership Theory
  • Burns’ Transformational Leadership Theory
  • Kouzes and Posner’s Leadership Participation Inventory

 

Global Leadership

Geert Hofstede (1980) opened the eyes of the world to the significance of culture to organizations and he tried to measure cultures compared to each other. Later, The GLOBE Study (House, et al., 2004) has extended and refined the ramifications of culture for leadership. While developing the predominant leadership styles in different cultures. Hofstede and Hofstede (2005) and The GLOBE Study additionally clarified how history and culture shape management and leadership practices and employees aspirations.

Zenger & Folkman (2005) are two researchers in leadership, they began at looking at survey responses from over 200,000 raters of more than 20,000 leaders.. Dr. E. S. Wibbeke (2005) introduces the Geoleadership Model^® and considers how the concepts of care, communication, consciousness, change, and capability all vary around the world.