tailieunhanh - Is leadership innate or learned implications for leadership development
This paper aims to discuss the issue of whether leadership is innate or learned. This paper argues that in order to be an effective leader, people should have some core traits that are partly innate; however, leadership can be learned in different ways. First this paper will give the definitions of leadership, and discuss the main core traits leaders should have, including: drive, leadership motivation, intelligence, self-confidence, and honesty/integrity. | Hue University Journal of Science ISSN 1859-1388 Vol. 113, No. 14, 2015, pp. 65-72 IS LEADERSHIP INNATE OR LEARNED? IMPLICATIONS FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Hoang Trong Hung* College of Economics - Hue University Abstract: This paper aims to discuss the issue of whether leadership is innate or learned. The paper argues that to be an effective leader, people should have some core traits that are partly innate; however, leadership can be learned in different ways. First, this paper will give the definitions of leadership, and discuss the main core traits leaders should have, including drive, leadership motivation, intelligence, selfconfidence, and honesty/integrity. Second, various ways that leadership can be learned, such as on-the-job, self-learning and formal training will be examined. This paper concludes that a significant part of effective leadership can be learned and provides some implications for organizations and business schools/institutions to develop potential leaders. Keywords: leadership, innate, learn, traits, skills 1 Introduction In today’s competitive and dynamic business world, the success or failure of an organization is affected by the presence of effective leaders (Elmuti et al., 2005). Leadership in organizations has become an important topic in scientific research over the decades (Hartog et al., 1997). It continues to be one of the most discussed, debated, and studied topics in management (Zornada, 2005). Despite several existing theories, there has historically been debate over whether leadership is innate or whether it can be learned and developed. Although leadership has been suggested to be highly valued, many organizations have not invested time and energy to develop future leaders since they think that leaders can be easily recruited from outside their organization, and that leaders are born, not made (Ruvolo et al., 2004). Regarding this issue, this paper discusses some core traits that leaders should have, such as self-confidence,
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