The Chinese Leadership Development Approach

Abstract

Leadership development is a hot topic in today's society, which is also the focus of Chinese academic circles. Through sorting out relevant research literature on leadership development in China and the world, this paper finds that most scholars pay attention to the development of leaders themselves in terms of leadership development methods. However, with the development of society and the change of environment, new trends have emerged in leadership development methods. Like leadership, "due to the complexity of the nature of leadership, there is no clear definition, and it may never be found." different scholars also have their own views on the connotation of leadership. For example, dong jun believes that "leadership, for an individual, is the ability to influence others, motivate oneself, and achieve ultimate goals with his own character and words and deeds." According to Chen jiansheng, "the so-called leadership is the ability of leaders to motivate employees to work together with them to achieve common goals. The author believes that leadership is not only the leadership ability and leadership quality, but also the force formed by the interaction and integration of various factors in the internal environment of an organization. In terms of leadershipdevelopment, he Shankan (2008) believes that it has changed from thinking that leadership is inherent in leaders to thinking that leadership can be cultivated. Cheng Yun and Wang Linchang (2013) find that under the traditional concept, leadership development refers to improving the knowledge, skills or beliefs and attitudes of individuals occupying management positions through work practices, coaches and 360-degree feedback. In general, leadership development refers to the improvement of individual leadership through the implementation of a series of scientific methods and means. The leadership development discussed in this paper is not limited to individual leadership, after all, individual leadership improvement has a limited contribution to the organization, so it should be extended to the organization. This paper focuses on the main concerns of current leadership development and discusses its new trend by combing the relevant research literature of various scholars on leadership development methods.