CONTEMPORARY AND CLASSICAL LEADERSHIP

Leadership
Contemporary Leadership
Classical Leadership
Comparison and contrast of
contemporary and classical leadership
 Leadership
Definition of leadership
 Leadership is the process of accomplishing definite
goals and objectives by a group of followers, who
are united by factors such as beliefs, values,
knowledge, etc. of a particular person; commonly
known as the leader.
The main features of leadership are
   Followers Good
 Relation between leader and his followers
 Harmony of interests
 Contemporary leadership theory
 The leadership is influenced by the
collaborators while they work together to
achieve real change.
 approaches to leadership include
transformational leadership, leader-member
exchange, servant leadership, and authentic
leadership.
 Classical leadership theory
 The Classical Theory is the traditional theory,
wherein more emphasis is on the
organization rather than the employees
working therein. According to the classical
theory, the organization is considered as a
machine and the human beings as different
components/parts of that machine.
 Contemporary and classical leadership

 The main difference between traditional

models and modern leadership models would
be all traditional models of leadership
emphasis characteristics or behaviors of only
one leader within a particular group whereas
emergent models provide a space to have
more than one leader at the same time.
Contemporary and classical leadership

• In classical Professional educators give

importance not to making difficult decisions
but to timing and determination of priority
• contemporary Leaders personally be helpful
about what to be done to people who cannot
fulfill expected performance or value standard
 Contemporary and classical leadership

 classical Leadership gives importance to

compilation of technical competencies in the
field of strategy, financing etc.
 Contemporary Leadership gives weight to
samples in the base of personal narratives
 Contemporary and classical leadership

 emergent models more focus on the special

skills or talents that the leaders must have to
practice to face challenging situations.
 But, Classical(Traditional) models do not tell
the kind of skills that the leaders should have.
 Contemporary and classical leadership

 Classical leadership Senior managers content

their selves with supporting development
programs, they participate into these programs
from time to time only to be a participant.
 modern leadership Senior managers take part
as an active participant, they lead to the whole
or a part of programs for development of
leadership characteristics.
 Contemporary and classical leadership

 Classical leadership gives importance to

compilation of technical competencies in the
field of strategy, financing etc.
 contemporary Leadership gives weight to
samples in the base of personal narratives.