ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that leadership is a process that incorporates several components that function together to produce the phenomenon we call "leadership." It suggests that the many theories of leadership can fit into the Five Components of Leadership Model to make better sense of the field and add to our overall understanding of the leadership process. The relationship between the leader and the follower has also been analyzed with theories such as Leader–Member Exchange Theory, Transformational Leadership, and Servant Leadership. Organizational scholars have long examined the contextual factors influencing leadership, such as the way an organizational or political culture may affect leadership in a particular situation. Perhaps the time has also come to cease calling the incorporation of the natural world into the process of leadership simply "environmental leadership" and start calling it real-world leadership. Leadership and followership are natural extensions of the evolutionary process and part of the natural world.
