The art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations (Kouzes and Posner, 1997:30). Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture (...) to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive (Schein, 2004: 2). Leadership is the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how it can be done effectively, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish the shared objectives (Yukl, 2006: 7). Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence, motivate and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members (House et al., 2004: 15). Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, 2007:3). A variety of definitions of leadership highlights different aspects of leadership studied and could be evenly applicable. Nonetheless, most definitions have as their central part an assumption that it engages influence of leaders on others for the purpose of accomplishing group and/or organizational goals. Leadership is a universal phenomenon (Bass, 1997). That is to say, wherever there are people, there are leaders. The term leadership is ubiquitous in common discourse (Vroom and Jago, 2007: 17). The question that arises within the international context is: Do different leadership behaviours and styles go beyond cultures? 2.1.2 A short overview of historical streams of leadership research Leadership theory has often been described as having passed throughout numerous different eras: from an early research on the and trait theories, over behavioural and “great man”
The art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations (Kouzes and Posner, 1997:30). Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture (...) to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive (Schein, 2004: 2). Leadership is the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how it can be done effectively, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish the shared objectives (Yukl, 2006: 7). Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence, motivate and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members (House et al., 2004: 15). Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, 2007:3). A variety of definitions of leadership highlights different aspects of leadership studied and could be evenly applicable. Nonetheless, most definitions have as their central part an assumption that it engages influence of leaders on others for the purpose of accomplishing group and/or organizational goals. Leadership is a universal phenomenon (Bass, 1997). That is to say, wherever there are people, there are leaders. The term leadership is ubiquitous in common discourse (Vroom and Jago, 2007: 17). The question that arises within the international context is: Do different leadership behaviours and styles go beyond cultures? 2.1.2 A short overview of historical streams of leadership research Leadership theory has often been described as having passed throughout numerous different eras: from an early research on the “great man” and trait theories, over behavioural and
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