SMO310 Lecture 9: Chapter 9 - Leading People and Organizations

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Strategic Management and Organization
• Course: SMO310
• Professor: Richard Field

Document Summary

Influenced by expectancy theory of motivation: employees are motivated if confident that . Their effort will lead to high performance. Rewards they will receive are valuable to them. Vroom and yetton"s normative decision model: the decision tree approach is a guide leaders can use to decide how participative they should be, given decision environment characteristics. Transformational leadership: employees focus on company"s well-being rather than individual pursuits, transformational leaders lead employees by aligning employee goals with the. Need to know the aspects of transformational leaders. Mustafa kemal ataturk, founder and first president of the turkish republic. Howard schultz, founder of starbucks witnessed his father losing his job due to medical problems, and became passionate about a company"s need to care for its employees. leader"s goals. Transactional leadership: employees demonstrate the right behaviours because the leader provides resources, methods used by transactional leaders in exchange. High quality lmx relationships have mutual respect between leader and followers.