The concept of leadership has an ambiguous status in organizational practice, as it does in organizational theory. In practice, management appears to be of two minds about the exercise of leadership. Many jobs are so specified in content and method that within very broad limits differences among individuals become irrelevant, and acts of leadership are regarded as gratuitous at best, and at worst insubordinate


Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kahn (1966) The Social Psychology of Organizations, p. 300

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The concept of leadership has an ambiguous status in organizational practice, as it does in organizational theory. In practice, management appears to ...

The concept of leadership has an ambiguous status in organizational practice, as it does in organizational theory. In practice, management appears to ...

The concept of leadership has an ambiguous status in organizational practice, as it does in organizational theory. In practice, management appears to ...

The concept of leadership has an ambiguous status in organizational practice, as it does in organizational theory. In practice, management appears to ...