Leadership and Management Theories Revisited （领导和管理理论重新审视）.pdfVIP

Leadership and Management Theories Revisited Mona Toft Madsen DDL Working Paper No. 4 October 2001 The DDL project The Danish Management Barometer (in Danish: Det Danske Ledelsesbarometer or the DDL project) is a research project carried out in cooperation between researchers at the Aarhus School of Business and the Danish Association of Managers and Executives. The purpose is through a regular survey procedure to monitor the development within the managerial function and the way it is practised in Danish companies and organizations. Further information can be found on: www.ledelsesbarometer.dk (general information in Danish) .hha.dk/org/ddl (specific research information) ii Abstract The goal of this paper is to revisit and analyze key contributions to the understanding of leadership and to discuss the relevance of maintaining a distinct line of demarcation between leadership and management. As a part of the discussion a role perspective that allows for additional and/or integrated leader dimensions, including a change-centered, will be outlined. Seemingly, a major challenge on the substantive level is the integration of soft and hard managerial functions, while the concepts used in presenting these should at least in transition be able to contain a distinction between hard, soft, and general practices. Hence a suggestion is made in the end that leadership as a broad concept should be investigated in the future, and various sub-types of leadership reflected by different roles should be used to clarify and concretize managerial functions in general.