Traditional Paradigms of Leadership A Critical Insight into Established Theories and Concepts

  • Christian Harrison

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Providing an introductory overview of the leadership field, this video emphasizes some of the traditional concepts that are generally accepted in the field. It covers established leadership theories and approaches such as trait theory, behavioral theory, contingency theory and skill theory, with the aim of providing a nuanced conceptualization of the topic.

What You Will Learn

  • The various skills that are required to be an effective leader

  • The behaviors that leaders display

  • The specific traits that differentiate leaders from followers

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.

This video provides an introductory overview of the leadership field, emphasizing some of the traditional concepts that are generally accepted in the field. It covers established leadership theories and approaches such as trait theory, behavioral theory and more.

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/10.1007/978-3-030-40805-3
Online ISBN
978-3-030-40805-3
Total duration
31 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

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Hello. I’m Dr. Christian Harrison, and I’m a leadership coach, expert, and academic. And I’m an academic in a world-renowned university in the United Kingdom. I’ve written several papers on leadership, and I recently wrote a book on leadership titled Leadership Theory and Research, A Critical Approach to New and Existing Paradigms.

There are so many leadership theories in the world today. However, in this video, we’ll be looking at the traditional paradigms of leadership, a critical insight into established theories and concepts. Within the course of this video, we’ll be looking at the story on leadership.

First, we’ll be looking at the trait theory before we progress to the behavioral theory. Then we’ll be looking at the contingency theory. And, finally, we’ll be looking at the skill theory. All these theories are important in understanding the traditional approach to leadership.

See you in the next segment.