Leadership in the Organization Context: A Conceptual Approach and Its Applications

Abstract

This paper reviews the literature on leadership, noting the lack of a well-founded theoretical conception of leadership that would provide a general cross-sectional approach to leadership identification and development. It is suggested that a systems approach might be used to gain some understanding of leadership as it occurs in an organizational context and that leadership focuses on the attainment of certain goals that can only be reached by using problem- solving capabilities. Leader characteristics and cognitive processes that are most facilitative of goal attainment are discussed as well as implications for leadership identification and development. Keywords: Leadership; Decision making; Systems theory; Cognitive processes; Literature survey.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA168849

Entities

People

  • Michael D. Mumford
  • William W. Haythorn

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Identification
  • Information Processing
  • Literature Surveys
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thinking
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design