Leadership Studies 1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Transformational Leadership, Servant Leadership, Universal History

• School: Western University
• Department: Leadership Studies
• Course: Leadership Studies 1031
• Professor: Smith

Document Summary

Some define leadership in terms of the power relationship that exists between leader and followers: others look at leadership from a skills perspective or a transformational process. Leadership as a process: not a trait or characteristic but a transactional event between the leaders and followers. Leadership occurs in groups whether it is a small task group or a large group. Leadership includes attention to common goals: leaders are born = trait perspective, assigned leadership= because of their formal position in an organization, emergent leadership= because of how other group members respond to them. Six bases of power: referent, expert, legitimate, reward, coercive and information power. (table on page 10: power relates to leadership because of its part in the influence process. Leadership and coercion: being able to influence others to do stuff against their will. Leadership and management: leadership is working with people and effective goal accomplishment like management however management emerged from.