The Impact of Humility on Leadership: Humility as Complementary Character of Leaders

摘要

In recent years, the study of humility in leadership has attracted considerable attention. This study first explores the important meaning of humility in leadership. Secondly, it analyses the development trend of the main leadership theory and the function of humility in it. Then, explaining the influence of humility between power and compliance. Compared with hard power, humility is a kind of soft power that leaders can combine these two powers to improve leadership effectiveness. In particular, these important issues have not yet been thoroughly discussed. Finally, this paper suggests the importance of complementary as well as combination of the soft power and hard power to highlight the role of humility in leadership, which may be an important direction for future research.