Question

Discuss charismatic authority.

Answer 1

Charismatic authority is a concept about leadership that was developed by the German sociologist Max Weber. It involves a type of organization or a type of leadership in which authority derives from the charisma of the leader.

Answer 2

Max Weber, a German Sociologist came up with the concept or idea of Charismatic Authority.

Charismatic authority means that in a particular organization the type of leadership or the authority is derived from the charisma of the leader.

Max Weber also classified two other type of authority namely legal authority and traditional authority.