OL224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Organizational Culture, Takers, Ingroups And Outgroups
Document Summary
The anti-leadership argument: leadership does not matter. Arguments against the importance of leadership include: Substitutes exist for leadership; factors in the work environment that provide guidance and incentives to perform, make the leader"s role almost superfluous. Leaders can be irrelevant; people lead themselves and outside influences can overwhelm them; factors outside the leader"s control have a larger impact on business outcomes than do leadership actions. Organizational systems are far too complex to attribute success to leadership; forces outside the leader"s control determine a company"s fate. At times, competent leadership is not necessary, and incompetent leadership can be counterbalanced by factors in the work situation. Closely knit teams of highly trained individuals; intrinsic satisfaction; computer technology; professional norms substitutes for leadership and leadership functions. Based on your position in the organization (store manager, department manager) Are group members who significantly influence other group members even though they have not been assigned formal authority.
