Download. Essay. Views. 17672. There are a range of theories of leadership and management. The leadership theories I examined included “trait theory”: This theory suggests that people are born with a range of traits, qualities, or attributes, and that some of these traits are ideally suited to leadership. Leadership traits: Building on the idea that leaders possess certain characteristics that make them leaders and that leadership is a personal quality, trait theory seeks to identify the types of "traits" that are found among leaders. From Alexander Hamilton, we could draw the traits of financial sense, from that of Otto von Bismarck, Theories of the trait. Behavioral theories. Contingency theories. Transformational theories. This fourfold division of 'modern' leadership, management and leadership can go by different titles, for example we might discuss charismatic rather than transformational leadership and there are other possible candidates, for example competency-based approaches and.