
Leadership: Theory and Practice

In summary, the model of servant leadership consists of three components: antecedent conditions, servant leader behaviors, and outcomes.
Peter G. Northouse • Leadership: Theory and Practice
Self-interest is an ethical stance closely related to transactional leadership theories
Peter G. Northouse • Leadership: Theory and Practice
Teamwork is an example of lateral decision making as opposed to the traditional vertical decision making that occurs in the organizational hierarchy based on rank or position in the organization.
Peter G. Northouse • Leadership: Theory and Practice
The stated goal of this theory is to enhance follower performance and follower satisfaction by focusing on follower motivation and the nature of the work tasks.
Peter G. Northouse • Leadership: Theory and Practice
Because of such factors as growing global influences and generational differences, leadership will continue to have different meanings for different people.
Peter G. Northouse • Leadership: Theory and Practice
Applying ethics to leadership and management, Velasquez has suggested that managers should develop virtues such as perseverance, public-spiritedness, integrity, truthfulness, fidelity, benevolence, and humility.
Peter G. Northouse • Leadership: Theory and Practice
Path–goal theory suggests that each type of leader behavior has a different kind of impact on followers’ motivation. Whether a particular leader behavior is motivating to followers is contingent on the followers’ characteristics and the characteristics of the task.
Peter G. Northouse • Leadership: Theory and Practice
Although people often think of adaptive leadership as being leader centered, it is actually more follower centered. It focuses primarily on how leaders help others do the work they need to do, to adapt to the challenges they face. Generally, adaptive leadership is concerned with how people change and adjust to new circumstances.