The Ohio State and Michigan studies moved the field from who leaders are to what they do

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Leadership theory has moved from the person to the relationship to the collective What decades of leadership research in industrial and organizational psychology actually settled What happens to a workplace when the manager is never in the room Adaptive leadership is the newest branch and it is still arguing about its own boundaries Stogdill's reviews kept contradicting the trait lists and that ended an era Fiedler's contingency model said the situation matters and the field never went back Trait theory returned as personality research and almost nobody called it a comeback Trait theory said leaders are born and behavioral theory said they can be trained From great man theory to trait theory: the first attempt to explain leadership scientifically Blake and Mouton's managerial grid made behavioral theory teachable