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 Types of Charismatic Leaders

Charismatic leaders have been categorized into five types:

a) 

Socialized charismatic Leadersb) Personalized charismatic Leaders

c)  Office-holder charismatic Leaders

d) Personal (not personalized) charismatic Leaders

e) 

Divine charismatic Leaders

a) 

Socialized charismatic Leaders

•  Socialized charismatic Leaders use power to benefit others.

• 

They Attempts to bring group members’ values in line with his or hervalues.

•  They Formulates and pursues goals that fulfill the needs of group members

and provide intellectual stimulation to them.

•  Followers of socialized charismatic leadership are empowered, and

responsible.

b) Personalized charismatic

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Personalized charismatic leaders use power to serve primarily their owninterests.

•  Personalized charismatics impose self-serving goals on constituents, and

they offer consideration and support to group members only when it

facilitates their own goals.

•  Followers of personalized charismatic leadership are typically obedient,

submissive, and dependent.

c)  Office-holder charismatic

•  The office-holder charismatic leaders attain their charisma chiefly from the

 position they hold rather than of their personal characteristics.

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d) 

Personal (not personalized) charismatic's

•  Personal (not personalized) charismatic leaders gain very high esteem

through the faith; others have in them.

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A personal charismatic exerts influence whether he or she occupies a low-or high-status position because he or she has the right traits,

characteristics, and behaviors.

e) Divine charismatic

•  The divine charismatic was a theological concept.

•  A divine charismatic was someone endowed with a gift of divine grace.