GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fiedler Contingency Model, Situational Leadership Theory, Ethnocentrism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Lori Anne Heckbert

Document Summary

Is the ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to make things happen the way you want: leadership. Is the process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish. Is the capacity to offer something of value as a means of influencing other people: coercive power. Is the capacity to punish or withhold positive outcomes as a means of influencing other people: legitimate power. Is the capacity to influence other people by virtue of formal authority, or the rights of office. Is the capacity to influence other people because of specialized knowledge: referent power. Is the capacity to influence other people because of their desire to identify personally with you. Is a clear sense future: visionary leadership, brings to the situation a clear sense of the future and an understanding of how to get there. Is follower-centred and committed to helping others in their work: empowerment, enables others to gain and use decision-making power.