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Preferred term
implicit theory of leadership
Definition
- What is leadership? Is it leaders' behavior or our image of it? For example, if you are a female manager, how often has an outsider taken you for your own secretary? How often does that happen to your male colleague? This is what research on implicit leadership theories (ILT) focuses on. What are our ideas of what a leader is like (e.g., male, as further explored later in this paragraph)? Whereas prior leadership research has studied the leader and his or her behavior, scholars studying ILT have taken a different approach. [Source: Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Implicit Theory of Leadership]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/implicit_theory_of_leadership
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