A STUDY OF THE LEADERSHIP PROCESS.

The emphasis in the title of this paper is not on "leadership process." The word "process" calls attention to the interplay of factors in a total situation. The situation is fundamental and in all cases makes the leader. This is obvious in everyday life and in history. The Adolf Hitler's and the Benito Mussolini's are made by situations and they can be understood only in terms of those situations. Their characteristics are indicative of times in which they live and situations of which they are a part. Groups do not act because they have leaders but they secure leaders to help them to act. Leadership study calls for a situational approach this is fundamentally sociological, not psychological. Leadership does not reside in a person. It is a function of the whole situation. The situation calls for certain types of action, the leader does not inject leadership but is the instrumental factor through which the situation is brought to a solution.