It was interesting to read\u00a0Von Rueden & Van Vugt’s article as it mentioned\u00a0contingency leadership, transformational leadership, and the leader-member exchange theory which are all models that I have studied in my Organizational Behavior class this semester.\u00a0 \u00a0However, like the article mentioned, these theories are mainly applied on a larger scale and not when studying small-scale societies.\u00a0 I found it interesting that in large-scale and small-scale societies, men usually have the advantage and are usually higher up on the totem pole, even if only by a little bit.\u00a0 Another concept that we discussed in my OB class was how self-led teams are more realistic in a smaller setting.\u00a0 When too many people become involved in a focused group, it becomes imperative for tasks to be delegated so that everyone has a purpose and stays focused and does not fight with other group members, so leadership becomes necessary.\u00a0 But in smaller groups, the whole group knows what everyone’s designated role is and so there is not always a need for a leader to delegate or guide them.\u00a0 I was very surprised to see the overlap such a direct overlap between these two classes because they take very different approaches to leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was interesting to read\u00a0Von Rueden & Van Vugt’s article as it mentioned\u00a0contingency leadership, transformational leadership, and the leader-member exchange theory which are all models that I have studied in my Organizational Behavior class this semester.\u00a0 \u00a0However, like the article mentioned, these theories are mainly applied on a larger scale and not when studying small-scale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}