Post-Bureaucratic Leadership Theory
Post-bureaucratic practices in leadership have branched from bureaucratic leadership practices (Grahn 2008). Current leadership practices have grown into a hybridization of democratic principles and bureaucratic forms (Josserand, Teo & Clegg 2006), and continue to grow further from bureaucratic leadership methods. As such, we examine traditional leadership theories and explore its roots to bureaucracy. Firstly I evaluate the movement from the trait theory by calling on the views of Galton contrasted to Conger & Kanugo (1994) and House & Aditya (1997). Following this is an examination of Rosen’s (2008) article that exhibit soft power controls as links to bureaucratic procedures of the behavioral theory. Adding upon the criticisms of democratic