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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

CO2

PATH-GOAL THEORY OF LEADERSHIP. The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership was developed in the mid-’70s by Martin G. The Path-Goal part of the theory comes in with respect to how leaders can help get subordinates to feel this way about the task at hand. SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORY. Evans and Robert J.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. The next morning, he called McGregor's office and asked for a meeting with him. It was also central to how Sam built Circuit City.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). Profits and share price increases are the result, not the goal of a firm’s activities.