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A 3 page research paper that offers a brief overview of how the conceptualization of leadership has changed throughout history. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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leader as the philosopher-king; and Machiavelli pictured leadership in terms of promoting self-interest (Sorenson, 2002). These pre-classical conceptions of leadership have in common the idea that leadership can be defined
according to the template of a "great man," a "heroic leader." While this concept of leadership was highly applicable to strictly structured hierarchical societies, its utility has been less so
since the advent of the modern age. Consequently, ideas concerning leadership have evolved with society. As the pre-classical views of leadership suggests, the principal emphasis on understanding leadership
has been on focusing on analysis that tries to discern what traits are important in distinguishing a leader (Doyle and Smith, 2006), i.e., trait theory or the "great man" perspective.
Nineteenth century notions of "great men" and their impact on society provided the principal definitions of leadership and guided understanding well into the twentieth century (Eddy and VanDerLinden, 2006). Stogdill
in 1948 and Mann in 1959 conducted early trait research, which focused on identifying personality characteristics that appeared to "differentiate leaders from followers" (Doyle and Smith, 2006). Early researchers were
looking for one definitive set of characteristics that would typify any leader, no matter the situation, and this was found not to be the case (Doyle and Smith, 2006). The
"Factory System model" of leadership that was prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries called for management leaders who dominated the employees principally through models of coercion (Monaco, 2003).
However, as conceptualizations of leadership evolved from classical models toward modern ones, the parameters of how leadership was considered expanded. Max Weber, in the 1940s, for example, differentiated between
the heroic, charismatic leader, basically the classical trait theory, and the bureaucratic leader (Boje, 2000). Burns, in 1978, took this stance further and described how "princely" political leaders and bureaucratic
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