Leadership traits and theories. A Review

Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 75, University of South Florida (Post Graduate School), course: Health Care and Public Administration, language: English, abstract: In the field of business and management sciences leadership is one of the enticing topic that has been studies and debated over and over. Well, the definition itself has been researched for so long which is evident by number of leadership definitions and theories of leadership that are presented by numerous research scholars. One of the definition of leadership is to be attributed to (Bavelas, 1969) who defined leadership as process and leadership is a personal attribute. This statements presents meaning that leadership is process of influencing, motivating or something more than that and such a skill is a personal attribute. According to (Bass, 1990), Leadership or a leader is the center of the group change and activity and embodies the will of the group. The author’s perspective on leadership was on the basis that leadership is about focus of group processes.