Managerial Leadership: Current Situation and Future Prospects

Abstract

Leadership is not a concept unique to today but has existed since the past. The historical process, which started with great men and trait theory, continued with behavioral leadership and situational leadership. Many new concepts related to leadership styles have emerged, today and in the recent past. Managerial leadership is just one of them. Managerial leadership can be achieved by the ability of people in managerial positions in their institutions to influence and lead the employees. A managerial leader emerges when the manager, who exhibits management and leadership behaviors, leads the employees at the same time. This study aims to examine the studies in the field of managerial leadership literature, gather them as a whole, and make theoretical suggestions. In this study, which was carried out in an exploratory and qualitative research design, 82 publications on managerial leadership were examined, the data collected with open coding was analyzed, the data divided into categories were narrowed by axial coding, and a theoretical proposition was made with selective coding. A comprehensive literature review in the field of managerial leadership and the use of Grounded Theory assumptions in this process add originality to the study.

Keywords

• leadership
• management
• managerial leadership
• grounded theory
• liderlik
• yöneticilik
• yönetsel liderlik
• gömülü teori