GMS 200 Lecture 9: GMS LECTURE 9

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Ado Abdoulkadre

Document Summary

Sources of positional power rewards, coercion, legitimacy, expertise, referent. Vision: a future that one hopes to create or achieve: visionary leadership a leader who bring the situation a clear and compelling sense of the future and knows how to get there successfully. Meeting the challenges of visionary leadership: challenge in the process, show enthusiasm, help others act, set examples, celebrate achievements. Empowerment: process through which managers enable and help others gain power and achieve influence. Effective leaders empower others by providing others with: information, responsibility, authority, trust. Important traits for leadership: drive, confidence, creativity, cognitive ability, job- relevant knowledge, motivation, flexibility, honesty and integrity, concern for the task and for the people. Autocratic style: emphasizes task over people, keeps authority and information within the leader"s tight control, and acts in a unilateral command and control fashion. Human relations style: emphasizes people > work.