GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Charismatic Authority, Transactional Leadership

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Bamidele Adekunle

Document Summary

Nature of leadership: leadership, contemporary leadership challenges, visionary leadership, meeting the challenges of visionary leadership. Leading- to inspire effort: communicate the vision, build enthusiasm, activate commitment, hard work. Organizing-to create structure: power, sources of managerial power, position power. Reward power- do what i ask and i"ll reward you . Coercive power- do as i say or i"ll punish you . Legitimate power i am the boss so do as i say : personal power. Country club manager- focuses on people"s needs and building relationships. Team manager- focusses on building participation and support for shared purpose. Impoverished manager- minimum effort to get work done. Authority obedience manager- focuses on efficiency of tasks and operations. Middle of road managers- focusses on balancing work output and morale. Hersey-blanchard situational leadership model: leaders adjust their styles depending on the readiness of their followers to perform in a given situation, readiness- how able, willing and confident followers are in performing tasks.