The systemic approach to leadership conceptualization and its development in an organization

Katarzyna Grzesik

For years leadership has represented an invariably popular problem and continuously subject to reinterpretation. The majority of classical leadership theories put emphasis on individual leaders or groups made up of a leader and subordinates, thus ignoring the broader aspect manifested by mutual interdependencies of organizations and leadership. Within the framework of modern leadership theories a more extensive exploration of the complex phenomenon represented by leadership is possible as a result of taking a systemic approach to the concept of leadership. The elaboration discusses, among others, the concepts referring to complex adaptive systems, i.e. Complex Systems Leadership Theory and Complexity Leadership Development. The purpose of the presented study is to discuss the problem of leadership following the systemic approach (as the system) and to analyze the development possibilities of leadership conceptualization in an organization perceived in such way.