ii The DDL project The Danish Management Barometer (in Danish: Det Danske Ledelsesbarometer or the DDL project) is a research project carried out in cooperation between researchers at the Aarhus School of Business and the Danish Association of Managers and Executives. The purpose is through a regular survey procedure to monitor the development within the managerial function and the way it is pr...

Comments on the six articles contained in the special issue of the American Psychologist (January 2007) devoted to leadership, written by W. Bennis; S. J. Zaccaro; V. H. Vroom and A. G. Yago; B. J. Avolio; R. J. Sternberg; and R. J. Hackman and R. Wageman. The current authors express concern that the special issue failed to include attention to issues of diversity and intersecting identities as...

This article argues that E-leadership emerged out of technological development among all other major developments in our society. In the virtual environment, leaders are required to lead followers by using different approaches. This is not to say that traditional leadership has no place in the new virtual environment characterized by the constant use of technology. Rather, traditional leadershi...

Leadership is a concept that has evolved over time. Individuals such as Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa have emerged as defensors of the social issues of their time. This essay looks at one of the most prominent leaders of our time Nelson Mandela, from 1963 to 1999. First it will critically analyse Mandela’s Leadership style in the perspective of two leadership theories: L...

The purpose of this perspective article is to present the argument that authentic leadership is a gendered representation of leadership. We first provide a brief history of leadership theories and definitions of authentic leadership. We then critique authentic leadership and offer arguments to support the premise that authentic leadership is not gender-neutral and is especially challenging for ...

I Summary Implicit motives have widely been studied with regard to their ability to predict effective leadership. In accordance with theorizing (McClelland, 1977), research (e.g., McClelland & Boyatzis, 1982) showed successful leaders to be motivated by a certain motive combination, the Leadership Motive Pattern (LMP). Leaders characterized by this pattern are motivated by high levels of the ne...

In this paper we integrate recent theories of motivation and leadership. Drawing on the self-regulatory focus theory and on self-concept based theories of leadership, we develop a conceptual framework proposing that leaders’ chronic self-regulatory focus (promotion versus prevention), in conjunction with their values, influences their motivation to lead and, subsequently, their leadership behav...

Purpose Over time, the role of followers within leadership discourse has gained greater status, leading to being acknowledged as significant actors in process. This led development follower-centric studies, well more emergent research area followership, with followership having specific intention find out about from perspective followers. In this paper, authors provide a review role-based appro...

The effect of school leadership on educational outcomes has been widely debated in recent decades. Only a small fraction of available studies on school leadership deal with its effects on specific educational outcomes. The paper aims to provide an overview of research on the effects of two contemporary leadership theories (distributed leadership and transformational leadership) on educational o...

Although there are many theories and discussion of leadership, the necessity of having a new leadership paradigm was emphasized. The existing leadership characteristic of instruction and control revealed its limitations. Market competition becomes fierce and economic recession never ends worldwide. Of the leadership theories, servant leadership was introduced recently and is in line with the en...