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In Max Weber's sociology, charisma names a form of legitimate authority: rule that rests on followers' devotion to the exceptional, even superhuman, qualities they credit to a single leader. In Economy and Society Weber set charismatic authority alongside traditional authority and legal-rational authority as one of his three pure types, each with a different basis for why people obey. Charismatic authority is the most unstable of the three, because it lives or dies with the leader and the belief in the gift, so Weber described its routinization into tradition or office once the founder is gone. The referent here is a relationship of legitimacy and command between a leader and a following, not a talent a person carries, and it is bound up with Weber's wider account of authority and legitimacy.[1]
In leadership and management psychology, charisma is treated as a measurable attribute of an individual leader, one variable among others that can be rated and correlated with outcomes. Conger and Kanungo's behavioral theory of charismatic leadership recast charisma as a set of observable actions, such as articulating a vision and taking personal risks, that followers read off a leader and that a questionnaire can score. This move makes charisma tractable for research, but it narrows Weber's idea sharply: a relational, world-historical form of authority becomes a trait or behavior lodged inside one person. Antonakis and colleagues review this literature and argue that charisma remains ill defined and ill measured, and that it is routinely confused with transformational leadership. The near-twin field of charismatic leadership as a leadership style is treated on the page for transformational leadership; here the point is the shrinking of the construct itself.[2][3]
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