Managing Organizations and Leading People

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Managing Organizations and
Leading People
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9/16/2019
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Managing Organizations and Leading People 1
Are leaders born or made?
Leadership is the qualitative approach in an organization. Leaders are born or made; this
is one of the common debates as there have been various theories that are supporting each of the
statement. However, considering today’s scenario and modern human resource management it
can be said that leaders are made, and not always born. As per the theoretical leadership theories
like great man theory it was concluded that the leaders are born like Mother Teresa, and
Mahatma Gandhi. However, previously the elements like leadership training were not available,
which reflected that leaders cannot learn skills in their lifetime, but are born with leadership
skills. The great man theory was founded in 1840s, which reflect that this concept was traditional
and it could be possible that it is not valid as per the changing times and there has been various
leadership approaches in modern world introduced (Clarke, 2010).
However, as per the modern leadership theories like trait theory, which reflect that the
leadership traits can be learned by an individual in order to become an effective leader, however
further modern theories have been founded by the researchers. Like the behavioral theory,
founded in 1950s, it was a reaction to the previously founded trait leadership theory. These
theories reflect that behaviors of the leaders are to be focused in order to become an effective
leader for instance physical, mental and social characteristics of a leader. In support of made
leadership, the supportive leadership theories include transactional leadership theory,
transformational leadership theory and contingency theory of leadership (Jacobsen, 2015). The
key reasons why it has been said that leaders are made and not born are leadership is not a
personality. The evidence suggests that it is a myth that leadership is outcome reflected by the
charismatic personality of an individual. However as per the research, leadership is about wide