Leadership: Why perceptions matter
Posted by Birgit Schyns in Leadership on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 09:00
Birgit Schyns, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Durham Business School, writes about the perceptions of leadership within organisations.
While in the research and practice of leadership we often focus on the leader as a person or his/her behaviour, the role of followers is often neglected. However, followers constitute the context in which leaders operate and there is a long-standing argument, going back to Weber's charisma theory, that leaders can only be leaders if they have followers. So, one of the obvious questions to ask is why do people follow and how are leaders 'granted' influence (De Rue & Ashforth, 2010).
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