Course: International Leadership: The Evolution of Management and Leadership Theory

This questionnaire is designed to assess your leadership skills, specifically your strengths and weaknesses in relation to your administrative, interpersonal and conceptual skills. This time the questionnaire is only to …

The first questionnaire you’re going to take is designed to assess your leadership traits. This questionnaire should be filled in by yourself and also by other people who know you …

Welcome back. We hope you are enjoying the short course so far. This week, you will apply your new understanding of leadership to examine your own abilities as a leader. …

Congratulations on completing this short course on the Evolution of Management and Leadership Theory. We hope you’ve enjoyed the experience. Watch the video where Navami summarises what we’ve looked at …

The concept of management emerged around the 20th century to reduce chaos in an increasingly industrialised society and to make workplace organisation more efficient and effective. The initial system of …

You have just seen how Kotter associated different characteristics to leaders and managers. Lunenburg (2011) looked at leadership and management as different ends of a spectrum, suggesting that a person …

Every leader can be a manager but not every manager can be a leader. Watch the video of Mary, associate director of Zarana company, interacting with her employees. Do you …

The skills theory of leadership follows a leader-centred perspective, similar to the traits theory. However, the difference is that the skills approach puts more emphasis on the skills and abilities …

Early ideas about leadership, described by the Great Man theory, focused on the innate qualities of individuals. In the 1950s, leadership theory focused on the situational interaction of traits, then …

Learning at Coventry University Coventry University believes that a good student experience is central to learning at a world-class standard. The Coventry Way At Coventry University Online, we’re committed to …

Welcome to this course on the Evolution of Management and Leadership Theory. It’s great that you can join us. Throughout the next two weeks, you will have the opportunity to: …

Now you have some understanding about the term leadership, let’s see how individuals emerge as leaders. Assigned or emergent? Assigned leaders are people who become leaders by being given a …

We will begin our exploration of leadership with some definitions, although this is not as straightforward as it sounds. A review of studies of leadership research identified that there are …

This questionnaire is designed to assess your leadership skills, specifically your strengths and weaknesses in relation to your administrative, interpersonal and conceptual skills. This time the questionnaire is only to …