Behavior Leadership Theory

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What really makes a good leader ? Psychologist and managers tried to answer this question . Chronologically , the first answer to what makes a good leader was that leaders are not made , they are born (Fairholm , 1991 . This was the first theory of Leadership , the Great Men Theory . Many other theories were divided by Fairholm and these are the following : theories based on who the leader is , wherein this group focuses on the leader s characteristic theories based on what the leader does , wherein the behavior theory belong to

this group . It is focused on studying leaders ' behavior so that it can be reproduced by followers and the theories based on the Environment of the Leadership Leadership is a difficult to study because leadership is a fuzzy ' concept . For decades , social scientists and practitioners have been struggling to come up with the ultimate definition of leadership , to explain its mechanisms , and to draw the line between leadership and management . They have produced a number of definitions and theories

Long time ago , determinants of leadership has been identified by behavioral theorists , so that people could be trained to be leaders Since the best styles of leadership can be learned , training programs have been developed to change managers ' leadership behaviors . During the World War II , the leaders of the academy left the Isle of Traits and set sale for the Isle of Behaviors by the 1940s . They suspected that the X and Y Theory of Leadership of Myers or Briggs , was some kind of fraud The military wanted to know if leaders could be trained , and if so , what behaviors made them most effective . The Academy of Leader Professors wanting to get tenure , fame in time of world crisis , and fortune decided that some new theory of leadership must be found or all their jobs would be as extinct as dinosaurs . Working with the Army and with universities two biggest

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bureaucracies in the world , it was mostly about transactional behavior being autocratic or democratic to increase the transaction rate or quality . The game of life in organizations was never to be transformed and their quest was to find universal leader behavior styles that correlate with effectiveness and are optimal transactions in all situations . Squire Fleishman and Sir Katz set off for the Isle of Behavior in separate ships as they are desperate to establish a behavioral settlement , but found out that Scribe Lewin had already established a behavioral settlement and an Iowa University since 1938 On the Isle of Behaviors , leader (transactional ) behaviors became observable and their study turned objective and measurable . Different Universities wanted to make its mark and study what do leaders do by using some statistical methods , then the Ohio State and Michigan University competed for the education of the peasants . Fleishman became King of Ohio State and Katz was made King of Michigan University . Lewin was already King at Iowa . Each mustered their armies and prepared to battle for leader behavior territory . Sir...