title: [The basic principles of leadership].
abstract: This overview of leadership research provides insights into the different leadership concepts. Early research on leadership focused on personality traits and leadership behaviour as determinants of good leadership. The recognition of leadership as a complex phenomenon resulted in concepts that examined leader characteristics and behaviour in the context of situational conditions. Modern cognitive approaches concentrated on the perception of leaders by followers and the perception of followers by leaders and the cognitive biases involved. There is a tendency in leadership research to integrate the three central aspects of leadership--person, situation and cognition--into a single framework.
authors: Abteilung für Medizinische Soziologie des Instituts für Arbeits- und Sozialmedizin der Universität zu Köln, Germany. holger.pfaff@medizin.uni-koeln.de
authors: Holger
authors: H
authors: Pfaff
authors: Melanie
authors: M
authors: Neumann
authors: Christine
authors: C
authors: Kuch
authors: Antje
authors: A
authors: Hammer
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Janssen
authors: Anne
authors: A
authors: Brinkmann
authors: Oliver
authors: O
authors: Ommen
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003469:Culture; D005858:Germany; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007857:Leadership; D010465:Perception; D010551:Personality; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*