Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting leadership from the industrial age to the knowledge era

Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting leadership from the industrial age to the knowledge era

Leadership models of the last century have been products of top-down, bureaucratic paradigms. These models are eminently effective for an economy premised on physical production but are not well-suited for a more knowledgeoriented economy. Complexity science suggests a different paradigm for leadership—one that frames leadership as a complex interactive dynamic from which adaptive outcomes (e.g...

Sts Theory – from the Industrial to the Knowledge Age

Socio-Technical Systems (STS) theory is rooted in principles that have their origin in action research field projects undertaken by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in British coal mines during postwar reconstruction of industry (Trist, 1950). This was a time when mine productivity was failing to increase despite major investments in increased mechanization, while labor turnover and a...

Imam Khomeini's Leadership Rejects Charismatic Leadership Theory

Many local and foreign theorists and authorities have tried to present a theoretical elaboration of the nature of Imam Khomeini’s leadership and its profound impact. Therefore, the basic question of this research foresees this fact “What kind of interactions has existed between Imam Khomeini’s personality and leadership method and the observation of   human dignity? Was this method of leadershi...

Explaining Industrial Leadership

“leadership in the Digital Age”

New Social Structures Are Generating New Leadership Styles Different epochs produce different kinds of leadership – with different patterns of hierarchical authority, different skill sets and attitudes, and different institutional incentives. Societies today are experiencing significant changes potentially as far reaching as the transition from agricultural to industrial societies. Today’s epoc...