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Leadership Behaviors: A Synthesis of Schools of Thought

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Journal of Management

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Abstract

Journal of Management, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 2551-2583, July 2026.
We identify a divide between two schools of thought in leadership behavior research. The classical behavioral school (CBS) categorizes leadership behaviors based on their latent functions and meanings—task, relations, change, and moral—with the aim of ...