Modern Paradigms of Leadership A Critical Insight into Contemporary Theories and Concepts

  • Christian Harrison

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Providing an introductory overview of leadership, this video emphasizes contemporary thinking in this vast and ever-changing field of scholarship. It explores up-to-date concepts that have risen in prominence in recent years, with critical analysis of hot topics such as charismatic leadership and the leader-follower dynamic. It also examines established modern leadership theories such as implicit leadership, leader-member exchange theory, transactional leadership, and transformational leadership, with the aim of providing a nuanced conceptualization of the topic.

What You Will Learn

  • A psycho-dynamic approach to leadership based on the interaction between leaders and followers

  • The importance of the influence that leaders have on their followers

  • How leaders must go beyond their self-interest to achieve organizational goals

Who This Video is For

Undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students in business and management courses and those who are new to leadership and need a comprehensive overview and introduction. This video is ideal for anyone who is looking for a starting point from which to develop their leadership abilities.

Providing an introductory overview of leadership, this video emphasizes contemporary thinking in this vast and ever-changing field of scholarship.

About The Author

Christian Harrison

Dr. Christian Harrison is Lecturer in Management, Strategy and Leadership at the School of Business and Enterprise at the University of the West of Scotland, UK, where he is the programme leader of the MSc Leadership and Management.

A well-known scholar in the field of leadership, Dr. Harrison works across the globe on research projects. He also works extensively as a consultant, speaker, and trainer on leadership skills development within organizations. He is the founder of The Leadership Mould Initiative International, an NGO which supports students and moulds future leaders. He is the author of Leadership Theory and Research: A Critical Approach to New and Existing Paradigms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

 

About this video

Author(s)
Christian Harrison
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39775-3
Online ISBN
978-3-030-39775-3
Total duration
35 min
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Copyright information
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

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Video Transcript

- Hello, I’m Dr. Christian Harrison. And I’m a leadership coach, expert and scholar and academic in a world renowned university in the United Kingdom and I’ve written several papers on leadership. I’ve also written a book on leadership, titled, “Leadership Theory and Research: A Critical Approach to New and Existing Paradigms.” In this video, titled, “Modern Paradigms of Leadership A Critical Insight into Contemporary Theories and Concepts,” we’ll be looking at the modern paradigms of leadership.

There are a lot of paradigms a lot of leadership theories that emerged over time. But there are some that have been tagged to be modern. We will be looking at them in more detail. We’ll be looking at the implicit leadership theories where the focus is on how individuals perceive their leaders. We’ll be looking at the leader-member exchange theory, whereby leadership is about interaction with the followers. We’ll be looking at the charismatic leadership theory, whereby leadership deals with charisma. We’ll be looking at the transactional leadership theory, whereby leadership becomes a transactional process. And finally we’ll also be looking at the transformational leadership theory, whereby leaders are important for change. All these theories will be examined within the course of this video. So let’s get started.