Leadership and Corporate Culture: Harmony and Disharmony

The idea of “leadership” has occupied an important position in the study of management, so that text‐books on organisational behaviour routinely allocate a chapter to discussion about it. It is invariably handled by recourse to a review of the major schools of thought and empirical findings associated with the concept. More specifically, writers of such texts are typically concerned with those aspects of leadership studies which have focused on its possible linkage with various indicators of performance or effectiveness. In addressing such issues, such writers focus on whether it is possible to isolate the personal characteristics of the effective leader, and whether it is possible to discern effective leadership styles.