Beneficial Leadership. Leadership Theories and Styles

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences Köln, language: English, abstract: ¿One of the most universal cravings of our time is a hunger for compelling and creative leadership¿, wrote James MacGregor Burns in his 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning book on leadership. But does this compelling hunger lead to more effective leadership, and not only to more creative styles? And how to define effective leadership? A leadership style can be effective in simple numbers like profit of the respective department. But furthermore it may also affect the motivation and team-spirit of the led employees. It is to debate if even the health of the employees or the public image can be affected by a different leadership style.