Investigating the leadership style in organizations and companies with highly qualified personnel

Abstract

The quest to understand leadership, across different sectors and disciplines, has easily proved that literature is vast in this field. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the concept of leadership styles, and its relevance towards those used in highly qualified personnel. The thesis begins with overview of the concept of leadership and leadership theories, and then followed by a short examination of different concepts involved, like learning organizations, knowledge workers, and styles of leadership. The basic research tool was a structured interview, which was distributed to 11 leaders. The data were analyzed by using content analysis. The aforementioned methodology provides the researcher with quantitative information of the qualitative data. This thesis contributes to the field by creating a basis for the leadership styles that followers with highly academic profile wants to be lead with and gives an idea of the leadership styles that leaders in private companies and public organizations, with interest in research, use. In presenting contemporary approaches in the existent literature of leadership styles, this examination provides valuable information for researchers. The results of the research indicated among all the other significant findings that, responding to the main and title’s question, charismatic and entrepreneurial leadership are the two dominant leadership styles.