Max Weber
Sergio Caredda
Shamir, B., House, R. J., & Arthur, M. B. (1993). The Motivational Effects of Charismatic Leadership: A Self-Concept Based Theory. Organization Science, 4(4), 577–594. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.4.4.577
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The idea of Charisma as a source of authority, and thus directly linked to Leadership, comes directly from the work of Max Weber, who had identified as one of the possible sources together with Bureaucracy. The big idea here is that Charismatic Leaders have a big emotional impact on their followers independently from their position in an organisation. Over the last few decades, many researchers have addressed the concept of Charismatic Leadership, sometimes as a specific style or model, in other cases focusing on charisma as a critical component within transformational leadership or visionary leadership models.
Robert House, Boas Shamir and Michael B. Arthur (Shamir, House and Arthur, 1993) integrated the theories and proposed various dimensions of charismatic leadership. To summarize, charismatic leaders are
- visionary,
- arouse followers’ motives,
- are excellent role models,
- project a positive self-image and
- empower their followers.
Below a summary of the impacts and why these make it an effective leadership model.
A lot of other models pointed out the fact that Charismatic Leadership is not the only model around, as often Charisma is deemed to depend solely on innate personality traits. However, this is never presented as the sole model present, but as one specific model or style, often effective.
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