Scientific Leadership and Management for Change
There are many kinds of leadership that have been utilized over the centuries. The most popular, that which has generated a lot of following is inspirational and artistic leadership. Leaders who inspire, move people to act and engage in many contingency-shaped behaviours, because people find the leader’s behaviours as reinforcing. The presence of the leader is inspiring. His or her actions as behaviours make meaning, and these are forms of positive reinforcement. The followers, sometimes referred to employees in organizations, get that inspiration from their leader, and are rewarded by so much social positive reinforcement by the very presence of a leader who inspires. However, an important question can be asked, “how does this leader who inspires leads?” or “what kinds of actions or behaviours this leader evokes, to be considered inspiring?”
