Abstract: The research of attribution in leadership has the important theoretical and practical significance for grasping process of leadership, performance assessment of organization, leader member relationship and so on. The article reviewed some related studies come up with after Leadership Attribution Theory, including construction, verification and development of model, implicit attributing on attribution of leadership. Meanwhile, relationship between attribution of leadership and some factors was systematically reorganized and analyzed, such as attribution bias, attribution style, leader member relationship, personality traits, leadership style, emotion, culture, demographic variables. In the end, the paper analyzed and summarized some problems on the previous research and indicated the future research trend

Key words: study on leadership, attribution theory, attribution of leadership