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Leadership psychology
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Leadership psychology is an emerging cross-disciplinary field that integrates the study and practice of leadership and organizational systems with the fundamentals of human psychology. Leadership Leadership psychology is an emerging cross-disciplinary field. It integrates the study and practice of leadership and organizational systems with the fundamentals of human psychology to create a 21st Century approach to leadership. This approach teaches leaders the skills and perspectives necessary to meet the local and global challenges of a networked world. Leadership psychology emphasizes the need to understand individual and group behaviors as a complex system in order to achieve positive and long lasting change. It recognizes the need to train leaders who are able to create adaptive rather than superficial change, drawing on Ronald Heifetz's work on adaptive leadership and the tenets of positive psychology. Therefore, 21st Century Leadership is defined as the art of influencing followers to achieve success by identifying joint goals, finding best-fit roles in teams, collaborating constructively and dynamically, and adapting to change within their environments. Although people may recognize the need for change, it is often difficult to move people, and therefore organizations and institutions, out of familiar behaviors, models and beliefs. This demands an adaptive approach to leadership. For example, William James College has created the first Leadership Psychology doctoral program in the U.S. to understand leadership, followership, and to deploy the best research and practice to address challenges in for profit, non-profit, higher education, healthcare, and government domains. Followership Leaders do not exist without followers. Together they form a reciprocal relationship within a group and the success of a group depends on the actions of both those who lead and those who follow. Robert E. Kelley developed a theory of followers This type of follower is characterized by their lack of characteristics on either end of the dependent/independent and active/passive spectrums. They are the background followers who contribute what they can when they can. While they do not possess any of the negative traits of the conformist, passive or alienated followers, they are not exemplary followers either. They are simply the rank-and-file members of the group. See Also
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