The Theoretical Analysis of Leadership in Social Movement's Leaders

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Kitchaiyakul Inkaew

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This article aims to analyze the theoretical of Leadership in Social Movement to explain Leadership in Social Movement, Leader Process in Social Movement, Components of Leader in Social Movement and Strategy of Leader in Social Movement. The author has studied and summarized the source of theory and information from national and internal levels from related documents under the themes 1) Leadership in Social Movement to explain Leadership in Social Movement 2) Leader Process in Social Movement 3) Components of Leader in Social Movement and 4) Strategy of Leader in Social Movement affect the success to social movement.  The results shown that 1) Social movement leaders have different leadership positions. Some leaders are charisma leaders, Political leadership. Regardless of lleader in social movement any group have motivation to move to achieve the goals of the group 2) The formation of leading in Social Movement from many factors, including the core of education and learning from experience, claims for equality, social responsibility, In addition, the study also found that the main types of social movements can be categorized into 3 types such as internal leader, semi leader  and outer leader 3) Component of social movement leaders were education and resource mobilization and 4) The strategies of leading in social movement were set a goal by clearly, resource mobilization from many network, leaders use knowledge and skill to  response organizational efficiency. There are also other tactics such as set a team for develop strategy, networking, leadership development and Mobilization of groups to force the organization to be success.


 

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Inkaew, K. (2019). The Theoretical Analysis of Leadership in Social Movement’s Leaders. Rajapark Journal, 13(29), 49–64. Retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/RJPJ/article/view/193016
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