Those are some fairly basic concepts about leaders and leadership. (As we’ll discuss later in this module, not every leader is a manager and not every manager is a leader.) Or a leader can be informal, someone who steps up and provides that guidance from within a group of people, not necessarily the person who has been given decision making authority. Describe the contingency approach and its variationsĪ leader may be considered a leader because of a formal relationship, provided by the possession of managerial rank in an organization.Discuss our understanding of leadership from the historical perspective.
