Monday, November 8, 2010

Chapter 12: Leadership

*A Leader:
-One who influences others to attain goals.
-The greater the number of followers, the greater the influence.

*Vision:
-A mental image of a possible and desirable future state of the organization.

*Sources of Power:
*Traditional Approaches to Leadership:
-(Trait approach): A leadership perspective that attempts to determine the personal characteristics that great leaders share.

*Leader's Behavioral Approach:
-A leadership perspective that attempts to identify what good leaders do,that is, what behaviors they exhibit.

*Questions for Task performance and group leadership:
*Situational Approach to Leadership:
-Leadership perspective proposing that universally important traits and behaviors do not exist, and that effective leadership behavior varies from situation to situation.

*Vroom model:
-A situational model that focuses on the participative dimension of leadership.

*Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness:
-A situational approach to leadership postulating that effectiveness depends on the personal style of the leader and the degree to which the situation gives the leader power, control, and influence over the situation.

*Fiedler's analysis of situations:

*Hersey and Blanchard's situational Theory:
-A life-cycle theory of leadership postulating that a manager should consider an employee’s psychological and job maturity before deciding whether task performance or maintenance behaviors are more important.

*Path Goal Theory:
-A theory that concerns how leaders influence subordinates’ perceptions of their work goals and the paths they follow toward attainment of those goals.

*The Path- Goal Framework:
*Charismatic Leader:
-A person who is dominant, self-confident, convinced of the moral righteousness of his beliefs, and able to arouse a sense of excitement and adventure in followers.

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