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Charisma and the Archetypes of Leadership
- Source :
- Organization Studies. 19:807-828
- Publication Year :
- 1998
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1998.
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Abstract
- The following contribution attempts to develop a charisma model in the context of business organizations, based on a social-cognitive information processing approach in the perception of leadership. It tries to operationalize charisma, departing from prototypical attributes that are inherent in the cognitive category of leadership. In contrast to the 'New Leadership Approach', we depart from a 'polymorphous phenotype' of charisma. This position is derived from the concept of charisma as Max Weber understands it. Based on the concept of 'archetypes' of leadership, four different phenotypes are then defined: the hero ('heroic charisma'), the father ('paternalistic charisma'), the saviour ('missionary charisma') and the king ('majestic charisma'). The main idea of this model is the correlation that is brought out clearly between charisma and stigma, and thus also the idea that both 'hyper-representativity' and 'anti-representativity' as well as 'social dramatization' and 'social reversion' can occasion the allocation of charisma.
- Subjects :
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Operationalization
Strategy and Management
05 social sciences
Context (language use)
0506 political science
Paternalism
Epistemology
Impression management
Dramatization
Management of Technology and Innovation
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
Charisma
HERO
Sociology
Archetype
Social psychology
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17413044 and 01708406
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Organization Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7986d6d1236bf3dd8c9a0900bcfa9916