MGMT 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Charismatic Authority, Situational Leadership Theory, Peer Pressure

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGMT 2130
• Professor: Brenda Lang

Document Summary

Leadership the process by which an individual exerts influence over other people and inspires, motivates, and direct their activities to help achieve group or organizational goals. Leader an individual who is able to exert influence over other people to help achieve group or organizational goals. Leadership is not management: personal leadership style the ways a manager chooses to influence others and how they approach planning, organizing, and controlling. Types of power: expert power that is based in the special knowledge, skills, and expertise that a leader possesses, referent power that comes from subordinates and coworkers" respect admiration, and loyalty. Early models of leadership: trait model, behavioural model. Contingency models of leadership: fiedler"s contingency model, hersey-blanchard situational leadership theory, evans-house"s path goal theory. Visionary leadership models: transformational leadership, charismatic leadership, turnaround leadership. Identifying personal characteristics that are responsible for effective leadership. Intelligence: knowledge, dominance, confidence, high energy, tolerance for stress, maturity.