Weber goes on to state that the term "charisma" will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exception powers or qualities. What is alone important is how the individual is actually regarded by those subject to charismatic authority, by his "followers" or "disciples." Do you agree with this statement? Explain.
Sigmund Freud is the creator of psychoanalytic theory and one of the most influential men in the study of Psychology's history. Of his first writing, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Freud focused on groups, or more precisely, on what happens to individuals when they become members of groups. First, we change from how we act when alone. Second, leaders of groups are of great importance and are shown it by the followers. Third, Freud discovered that follows desire a leader more than a leader desires followers. Based on what Freud had discovered, what do you have to say about this? Do you agree with his findings? Explain.
Mary Parker Follet was the first in a series of pioneers in the study of leadership and management in large organizations, especially in American business. Peter Drucker, who is widely considered the father of "modern management" referred to Follet as "the prophet of management." James MacGregor Burns has been widely published and highly esteemed both in the academy and outside it. Burns is well known for his two well-known leadership types, transaction and transforming. Transforming leadership came of itself to be considered the ideal, and paragon of leadership types. Which of the two leadership types (transaction & transforming) do you prefer and why?
Stanley Milgram conducted the most famous social science experiment of all time. The experiment was about followers-about obedience to authority. It was intended to shed light on why followers obeyed leaders who ordered the m to do something they would almost certainly not have done otherwise-inflict pain, obvious physical pain, on another human being. Being a psychology major, I have actually seen the video tape of Milgram's true experiment. It is astonishing to see how different people react to the request to inflict pain on another human being. Some people would close their eyes and others would flinch as they flipped the switch. Milgram was trying to understand the relationship between superiors and subordinates. We always were, and we still are, more attracted to and engaged by those who do have power, authority and influence than by those who do not. What do you think the circumstances are under which crimes of obedience are likely to be committed?
