Explain the following theories and mention the (2) time period, author/s and any (3) interesting facts associated with theory/s. (4) [optional advanced level: mention a criticism of the theory].You may want to imagine that you are being interviewed to be the new Vice President of Leadership Development for a Fortune 500 company. The interview panel has asked you to explain briefly your understanding of the following:

Pick 1 question per part answer with 110

PART 1: Explain the following theories and mention the (2) time period, author/s and any (3) interesting facts associated with theory/s. (4) [optional advanced level: mention a criticism of the theory].You may want to imagine that you are being interviewed to be the new Vice President of Leadership Development for a Fortune 500 company. The interview panel has asked you to explain briefly your understanding of the following:

Servant Leadership
Situational Leadership
Transformational Leadership
Leadership as Trait theory and/or Behavioral approaches to leadership
Emotional Intelligence
Post Industrial Model—Relational Leadership
Organizational Culture and leadership
A Learning Organization-systems thinking

PART 2: How did the following contribute to the study of leadership?
Scientific Management (Taylor, c1890)
Max Weber (1922)
Mary Parker Follett (1926)
Hawthorne Experiments (Mayo, 1953) What is meant by the Hawthorne effect?
Theory X and Y (McGregor, 1957)
The differences between management and leadership (managers do things right-leaders do the right things) (Zaleznik, 1977; Kotter, 1996)
Bases of social power (French and Raven, 1975)
Systems thinking (Senge, 1990) what is a learning organization?
Organizational culture and Leadership (Schein, 1993)

PART 3: Answer one question

Discuss whether leaders are born or made. Provide support for your opinion.
What is Systems thinking? How is it linked to exercising leadership?
What is Groupthink? How do you prevent it or fix it? Who wrote about it?
What is the difference between leadership and authority?
What is ethical culture and how is it linked to exercising leadership?
How do you change the culture of an organization?
What disciplines form the roots for the study of leadership?
Discuss the differences between bureaucratic/mechanistic cultures or views and emerging holistic cultures/ad hoc cultures.
What is leadership?

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