Leadership in the Implementation of Change: Functions, Sources, and Requisite Variety

Despite leadership being considered essential to successful organizational change, reviews of empirical research on the subject reveal inconsistencies in approaches to, and measurements of, both its impact change outcomes. The study development should reach beyond simple focus individual leaders ultimately broaden our view how most meaningful can be made. Toward this end, a general framework implementation is provided. Starting from functional perspective, it proposed that provided by one or more sources independently collaboratively enact configuration four functions through specific behaviours three behavioural meta-categories. It additionally argued effectiveness – success product degree which enacted sufficiently addresses variety situations encounter. In regard, integrative offered here focuses primarily what Rost [(1991). Leadership for twenty-first century. Praeger] categorizes as peripheral elements theory.