Leadership:Meaning and Techniques

The aim of this study is to conduct a review analysis of literature of different leadership styles over thirteen years. The analysis focuses on major topic area of leadership styles. Information was extracted after reviewing thirty articles from four journals on leadership styles. It relates different leadership styles to theory X and theory Y. Furthermore, the study recommends that transformational and transactional leadership styles are more important as more work has been done about it and there are other areas of leadership styles which need more attention from the future researchers.