Managerial Leadership: A Review of Theory and Research

Abstract

This article reviews and evaluates major theories of leadership and summarizes findings from empirical research on leadership. Major topics and controversies include leadership versus management, leader traits and skills, leader behavior and activities, leader power and influence, situational determinants of leader behavior, situational moderator variables, transformational leadership, importance of leadership for organizational effectiveness, and leadership as an attributional process. Methodological issues in leadership research and implications for improving managerial practice are discussed also. An integrating conceptual framework is presented to show how the different theories and lines of research fit together.

Role of Leadership in Employees’ Work Engagement: Organizational Identification and Job Autonomy

“…Job autonomy allows followers to become their own leader, as suggested by Manz and Sims (2001) and Yammarino (1994). Yukl (1989) stated that transformational leaders modify the beliefs and opinions of followers, causing greater follower autonomy, a finding confirmed by the present study that is also in line with the theory of Bass and Avolio (1990). Job autonomy produces a sense of job satisfaction that results in enhanced engagement.…”

“…If leadership is considered a means of affecting people's beliefs and behaviors (Yukl, 1989), transformational leaders can be said to be equipped to provide followers with a higher degree of autonomy (Bass & Avolio, 1990) so that they can become their own leaders (Yammarino, 1994). Indeed, experimental studies have demonstrated this causal relationship between transformational leadership and autonomy (Hackman & Oldham, 1976;Piccolo & Colquitt, 2006;Rich et al, 2010).…”

Conhecimento Científico sobre Liderança: Uma Análise Bibliométrica do Acervo do The Leadership Quarterly

“…434-457, Jul./Ago. 2016 www.anpad.org.br/rac (Kotter, 2001), e por isso tem recebido destaque tanto na literatura acadêmica (Yukl, 1989(Yukl, , 2012) quanto na mídia de negócios (e.g. : Schreyer, 2010).…”

The role of leadership in emergent, self-organization

“…It is beyond the scope of this paper to review the entire literature on leadership (see Hunt, 1999) however, we summarize some of the major approaches to studying leadership in order to make the following point (Bass et al, 1987;Fiedler, 1967;House, 1971;Steers et al, 1996;Yukl, 1989). Regardless of the partic-ular theoretical approach, leadership has been viewed largely as a way of directing and controlling foreseeable organizational futures.…”