What are the three major theories of leadership theory?

Leadership theory can be roughly divided into three categories:

The first category is sex theory-focusing on the personal characteristics that an effective leader should have; The second category is personal style and personal behavior theory-focusing on the influence of leaders' work style and leadership behavior on leadership effectiveness; The third category is situation theory or contingency theory-focusing on what kind of work style and leadership behavior is the best in different situations.

Leadership is an action process that guides and influences individuals or organizations to achieve certain goals under certain conditions. Among them, those who implement guidance and influence are called leaders, and those who accept guidance and influence are called leaders. Some conditions refer to environmental factors. The essence of leadership is the interactive process between people.

G.B.Terry thinks: "Leadership is an act that automatically affects people's efforts to achieve group goals." According to R.M.Stodill, "Leadership is a process of influencing the activities of an organized group to establish and achieve goals." ? L.K.Hemphil thinks: "Leadership is the process of directing groups to solve the same problems in interactive activities."

To sum up, we can see that the concept of leadership is different, but the expression of scholars helps to fully understand the concept and essence of leadership. First of all, we should distinguish the two concepts of "leader" and "leader". "leadship" and "leader" are two different words in English.

In Chinese, "leader" is both a name and a verb. Usually people are used to calling leaders leaders, and their behavior is also called leadership. The actual leader is the person who carries out leadership behavior, and leadership is the process in which leaders carry out leadership behavior.