The Leadership Box
© David Boje, December 7 2000; revised June 19 2018

The Leadership Box Once inside, you may never get out...

What is inside the Leadership Box? For Intro See Modernist Leadership Theories

(1800s to 1940s with revival in 1990s)

BEHAVIOR/ PROCESS are transactional

1940s to 1970s with revival in 2001)

SITUATION/ CONTINGENCY

(early 1960s to Present)

POWER

(From BC rediscovered from one generation to next; empower is renaming of delegation of 1940s)

(Late 1800s then rediscovered in 1970s and revival in 1980s and 1990s)

TRAITS

	Machiavelli Great Man Theory
	Stogdill 1948
	Stogdill 1974
	McGregor 1960 Theory X Y
	McClelland 1965 Stories
	Katz 1955 Skill Taxonomy
	Yukl 1989
	Flanagan 1951 Critical Incidents; Boyatzis 1982 (Traits & Competencies)

BEHAVIOR

	Lewin et al AUTOCRATIC, DEMOCRATIC, & LAISSEZ-FAIRE Iowa University
	Flanagan 1951 (behavior incidents)
	Fleishman et al 1953 Ohio State
	Katz et al 1950 Michigan University
	Merton 1957 Role Theory
	Yukl 1971 Participative Leadership
	Mintzberg 1973 Managerial Roles

	Fiedler Contingency Model 1964
	Evans, House et al 1970 Path Goal
	Vroom & Yetton 1973 Normative Decision Style Model
	Boje's (1980; 2001) PSL²
	Graen et al 1975 LMX
	Hersey & Blanchard Situation Model
	Kerr & Jermier 1978 Substitutes
	House et al Globe Project
	Jean-Paul Sartre (1956) Existential Critique of Situation Leadership

CHARISMA

	Jungian Archetypes and Myers-Briggs types
	Servant
	Spiritual
	Trust
	Covey 1990 Principle- Centered
	The Theatrics Model of Leaders

PROCESS

	Yukl 1989
	Howell & Costley 2001

TRANSFORM & TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP

	Weber on charismatic Transformation and Transactional (Bureaucratic)
	Burns 1978 Transforming
	Bass 1985 Transformational
	Bennis & Nanus 1985 Transformational
	Schein 1985 Culture Change

PROBLEMS

The basic Problems with the In-THE-BOX Leadership Theories is they do not THINK BIG ENOUGH to Address the 17 NU Sustainability Goals

Rather, they are within the single organizaiton model of the idealized corporation, as if it was not within a sociomaterial Mother Earth ecology