Stoker Janka I, Garretsen Harry, Soudis Dimitrios, Vriend Tim
Department of HRM & OB, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Department of GEM, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 13;13:1022299. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1022299. eCollection 2022.
The behavioral approach to leadership, which has introduced leadership styles, has been of great importance to the leadership field. Despite its importance, scholars have recently argued and demonstrated that these styles have various conceptual, methodological, and empirical limitations that could hamper further development of the leadership field. Consequently, they have called for alternative approaches to study leadership. We argue that taking a configurational or person-oriented approach to leadership behavior, which focuses on ideal-type configurations of leadership behaviors to identify leadership archetypes, offers such an alternative. We demonstrate the potential of such an approach the use of archetypal analysis, for a dataset of 46 behaviors across 6 leadership styles, including more than 150,000 respondents. Our results offer a clear indication for the existence of archetypes of leadership. We also suggest how the resulting archetypes can get a meaningful interpretation, and discuss implications for future research.
引入领导风格的领导行为方法对领导领域极为重要。尽管其重要性，但学者们最近认为并证明，这些风格存在各种概念、方法和实证方面的局限性，可能会阻碍领导领域的进一步发展。因此，他们呼吁采用替代方法来研究领导力。我们认为，采用一种构造型或以人为本的领导行为方法，即专注于领导行为的理想类型配置以识别领导原型，提供了这样一种替代方法。我们通过对包括超过150,000名受访者的6种领导风格中的46种行为的数据集进行原型分析，展示了这种方法的潜力。我们的结果清楚地表明了领导原型的存在。我们还建议如何对所得原型进行有意义的解释，并讨论对未来研究的影响。
