Leadership, Culture, and Custom: How to Generate Leadership Strength by Creating Structures

Michael Paschen and Erich Dihsmaier

Chapter 6 in The Psychology of Human Leadership, 2014, pp 125-142 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the previous chapters we primarily understood and explained leadership as a relationship phenomenon. We explained the nature of the leadership relationship. We shed light on the various relationship contracts that leaders conclude with their followers, and we understood the matter of charisma as an interaction between the leader and the followers in which the charismatic relationship obtains its strength and energy from the leader’s ability to remove fears. Yet we also interpreted leadership as a relationship phenomenon when discussing the leadership situation and possible leadership goals. The leader’s job in dealing with the situation is to interpret its critical elements so that they are accessible to the followers. The fears that arise from the crisis become the material that enables the charismatic relationship contract to be concluded. The same is true for goals. Like the lock-and-key principle in biology, goals must represent accessible promises and hopes for the future for followers. The goals formulated must provide a specific answer to the current crisis. At this point, they are the leader’s communicative achievements, which consist in endowing meaning, motivation, and assertion, and which also ensure the success of the leadership process.

Keywords: Leadership Structure; Leadership Action; Previous Chapter; Exceptional Circumstance; Relationship Contract (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37054-0_6

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