Lessons from Leadership Theory and the Contemporary Challenges of Leaders

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Van Wart, Montgomery
• 署名单位: Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12069
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 553-565
• 关键词: public-service motivation; PATH-GOAL THEORY; transformational leadership; sector; management; performance; MODEL; GOVERNMENT; self; confidence

摘要

Leadership theories and the academic literature can sometimes seem difficult for practitioners to understand because of complex conceptualizations, obscure terms, and its enormousness. Yet taken as a whole, the literature makes a great deal of sense and has much to offer. Indeed, the truths are often quite simple, elegant, and straightforward. The purpose of this article is to review the major findings of the organizational leadership literature and to identify the important overarching insights, specifically those of particular importance to today's leaders in administrative positions in the public sector, where an evolving context constantly reconfigures age-old challenges.