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Human Relations, Vol. 50, No. 4,
343-362 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/001872679705000402
How Can We Train Leaders if We Do Not Know What Leadership Is?
Richard A. Barker
School of Management, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
Views of leadership that focus on the traits and behaviors of the leader are commonly used to develop training programs. Although these leadership training programs have some application, they suffer from several problems. First, there is no reasonable agreement on what traits or behaviors are leadership traits or behaviors. Second, there is no way to differentiate what makes a good leader from what makes an effective manager or an effective person. And third, people who emerge from these training programs rarely become what anyone might define as good leaders. A view of leadership as a community development process is explored as an alternative to traditional leadership approaches, and its implications for training and education are discussed.
Key Words: leadership • ethics • socially constructed reality • training • management • mores
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