Charismatic Leadership

[Music] another perspective that's been adopted by some leadership experts focuses on how leaders are seen through the eyes of followers that is in what ways and to what extent is it important that followers and other observers attribute leadership to others the three primary approaches of leadership through the eyes of followers are transformational leadership charismatic leadership and attributions of leadership let's take a look at charismatic leadership perspective based on charismatic leadership assume that charisma is an individual characteristic of the leader charisma is a form of interpersonal attraction that inspires support and acceptance charismatic leadership is accordingly

a type of influence based on the leaders personal charisma all else being equal someone with charisma is more likely to be able to influence others than someone without robert house first proposed a theory of charismatic leadership based on research findings from a variety of social science disciplines his theory suggests that charismatic leaders are likely to have a lot of self-confidence firm confidence in their beliefs and ideals and a strong need to influence people they also tend to communicate high expectations about follower performance and to express confidence in their followers this figure portrays the three elements

of charismatic leadership in organizations that most experts acknowledge today first charismatic leaders are able to envision likely future trends and patterns to set a high expectations for themselves and for others and to model behaviors consistent with meeting those expectations next charismatic leaders are able to energize others by demonstrating personal excitement personal confidence and constant patterns of success finally charismatic leaders enable others by supporting them empathizing with them and expressing confidence in them the charismatic leader is characterized by these three fundamental attributes as illustrated these are behaviors resulting in envisioning energizing and enabling charismatic leaders can

be a powerful force in any organizational setting [Music]