MIS 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Charismatic Authority, Communication Problems

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 340
• Professor: Townsend Anthony

Document Summary

Inspiring a shared vision: challenging the process. 2: enabling others to act, modeling the way, encouraging the heart. The early stages: initiation, planning, resource acquisition. Project launch: clarify mission, objectives, deliverables, clarify project organization and responsibilities, focus on and track initial project work, considerations of leadership style. Project execution: the project team: monitoring project work. Project execution: external stakeholders: clients, higher management, resource suppliers, regulators. Leadership style and job maturity: directive for new members, two-way interactions once members settle in , participation for emerging leaders, delegation for the most mature. Absolute capacity of a person to influence the behavior or attitudes of one or more target persons at a given point in time. Legitimate power comes from having a position of power in an organization, such as being the boss or a key member of a leadership team. This power comes when employees in the organization recognize the authority of the individual.