Political leadership and the public official

Abstract

The concept of leadership, so fashionable today, is a relatively new concept. Before 1930, there was not much academic interest in the area of leadership as evidenced by the limited availability of material on the subject. The interest was set more on the traditional aspects of operations management: executing specific actions through others on the basis of power, acquiring knowledge on the subject matter or about rigorous administrative systems. The purpose of this article is to review the evolutionary process of the concept of leadership - leader: to execute actions through others based on the characteristics of a leader; to define said characteristics; to elaborate on each of them, and to arrive at a concrete definition of what constitutes a modern leader. It is also our purpose to relate the concepts of leadership - leader to the political environment and to make them reach the public official as a tangible expression of the political leader stating certain aspects still absent from our environment; [knowing that] some behaviors and attitudes generate a widespread institutional mistrust among the population.

Entorno, december 2014, issue 57: 29-38